Understanding the Cultural Landscape

by Bret Wallach

Book Overview

This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe. Coverage ranges from the earliest societies to preindustrial China and India, from the emergence in Europe of the modern world to the contemporary global economy. The focus is on what the places we have created say about us: our belief systems and the ways we make a living. Also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593851197
• ISBN13: 9781593851194
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.8"