The Face of the Earth: Environment and World History

by J. Donald Hughes

Although the organizing principle of virtually every world history text is "development", the editor of this volume maintains that this traditional approach fails to address the issue of sustainability. By adopting the ecological process as their major theme, the authors show how the process of human interaction with the natural environment unfolded in the past, and offer perspective on the ecological crises in our world at the beginning of the 21st...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076560423X
• ISBN13: 9780765604231
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"