A New Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
by:
Clive Ponting (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781409000723 (1409000729)
Publish date: February 15th 2011
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Biology,
Ecology,
Economics,
Sustainability,
Green
I had a great deal of trouble finishing this book. It was just plain tedious.This book could have been interesting and so much better, but I found it boring and outdated. I didn't learn much new "stuff", which is the whole point of reading books like this.The first third of the book is incredibly ...
Very, very thorough - this would make a great textbook for a class on environment and world development. Most of this was stuff I learned in archaelogy & anthropology classes but not necessarily from this viewpoint. Especially provoking are the chapters on "Ways of Thought" and "The Creation of the ...
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