Since 1492, when Columbus "discovered" America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and consequently greater resource demands, and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere. These developments play a major part in both modern history and in daily life. Understanding their interrelationships and development is crucial to the future of humanity and of the Earth, and is the unifying theme of this collection of readings.
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"Overall The Ends of the Earth serves its purpose well. Geographers will find intellectual stimulation and motivations for new research among these essays. Worster's invitation for geographers to contribute more to environmental history whould be welcomed." Michael E. Lewis, Geographical Reviews
"...provides readers with a fair introduction to the kinds of approaches taken by environmental historians." Forest and Conservation History
"...offers a diverse state-of-the-art introduction to environmental history. Donald Worster engages the reader with two strong and graceful essays. Not least, the book concludes with an important bibliography covering English titles in modern environmental history." John Opie, ISIS
"...provides readers with a fair introduction to the kinds of approaches taken by environmental historians." Forest and Conservation History
"...offers a diverse state-of-the-art introduction to environmental history. Donald Worster engages the reader with two strong and graceful essays. Not least, the book concludes with an important bibliography covering English titles in modern environmental history." John Opie, ISIS
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A collection of essays explores the interrelationship of higher population levels, greater resource demands and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere with the development of an integrated global economy.
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IN THE EARLY DAYS of October 1492, great flocks of birds, migrating southward along the eastern flyway of North America, following an ancient course over open water far from sight of land, fly over three small Spanish caravels. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
destructive occupance, southern soil miner, southern environmental history, new agrarian system, demographic takeover, cotton specialization, okhrana prirody, land rotation, eastern cotton belt, serious crop failures, acreage limitation, sardine fishery, ecosystem people, tobacco economy, subsistence systems, climate theory, tea industry, agrarian practice, forest fallow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Ivory Coast, United States, New Zealand, Gold Coast, Middle Ages, North America, New Deal, New World, Old World, Lands of the Demographic Takeover, Forest Service, West Africa, Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, Academy of Sciences, Forest Department, Great Britain, Oxford University Press, Professor Schreiner, San Francisco, Historical Geography, Interior Department, New England, New Haven New!
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IN THE EARLY DAYS of October 1492, great flocks of birds, migrating southward along the eastern flyway of North America, following an ancient course over open water far from sight of land, fly over three small Spanish caravels. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
destructive occupance, southern soil miner, southern environmental history, new agrarian system, demographic takeover, cotton specialization, okhrana prirody, land rotation, eastern cotton belt, serious crop failures, acreage limitation, sardine fishery, ecosystem people, tobacco economy, subsistence systems, climate theory, tea industry, agrarian practice, forest fallow Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Ivory Coast, United States, New Zealand, Gold Coast, Middle Ages, North America, New Deal, New World, Old World, Lands of the Demographic Takeover, Forest Service, West Africa, Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, Academy of Sciences, Forest Department, Great Britain, Oxford University Press, Professor Schreiner, San Francisco, Historical Geography, Interior Department, New England, New Haven New!
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