A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
- ISBN-10
- 0312069871
- ISBN-13
- 9780312069872
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- St Martins Press
- Author
- Clive Ponting
Description
Explores how nature has affected the growth of human civilization and vice versa, from the earliest hunter-gatherer groups to the present
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