Environments and Historical Change The Linacre Lectures 1998

by Slack, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780198233886
• ISBN10: 0198233884
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book explores the shifting relationship between people and their environments by focusing on the environmental change and historical change from the last Ice Age to the present. It examines questions such as: How has climate fluctuated and why? How have people exploited nature and defined their local place in it? Why have boundaries taken the shapes they have?

Author Biography

Paul Slack is Principal of Linacre College, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. v
Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
References	p. 7
The Ice Age in the Tropics and Its Human Implications	p. 10
Introduction THE EARLY HISTORY	p. 10
Conclusion	p. 25
References	p. 27
Climate and History in the Old and New Worlds	p. 33
References	p. 43
Putting Abrupt Environmental Change Back into Human History	p. 46
Introduction	p. 46
Conclusion	p. 72
References	p. 72
Meeting Human Energy Needs: Constraints, Opportunities, and Effects	p. 76
Meeting Human Energy Needs: Constraints, Opportunities, and Effects	p. 76
References	p. 94
Boundaries and Country Planning: Ancient and Modern	p. 96
References	p. 116
Introduction	p. 118
Environments and Identities: Landscape as Cultural Projection in the English Provincial Past	p. 118
The Renaturing of African Animals: Film and Literature in the 1950s and 1960s	p. 147
References	p. 165
From Hunting to Mining: The History of Human Environmental Relations in Eastern Arnhem Land	p. 168
Introduction	p. 168
References	p. 186
Conclusion	p. 186
Index	p. 189
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