Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /

"The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden underwrote the biblical book of Genesis and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGregor, James H. (James Harvey), 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Human ecology > Mediterranean Region > History.
Agriculture > Mediterranean Region > History.
Environmental responsibility > Mediterranean Region.
NATURE > Ecology.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
Environmental responsibility.
Agriculture.
Human ecology.
Mediterranean Region > History.
Mediterranean Region > Environmental conditions > Social aspects.
Méditerranée, Région de la > Histoire.
Mediterranean Region.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : How did we get here?
  • Part I. Forging First Nature. 1. The Paleolithic landscape ; 2. Neolithic revolutions ; 3. The spread of farming culture ; 4. Uruk and Egypt, the great powers ; 5. The primacy of landscape in West Asia ; 6. Mediterranean trade and regional cooperation
  • Part II. Perseverance and Attack. 7. The Greek link between landscape and cosmology ; 8. Roman agriculture : three case studies ; 9. Medieval Christian ecological understanding ; 10. Muslim ecological understanding ; 11. Renaissance landscape and food ; 12. Mechanistic models and romantic wilderness
  • Part III. Age of Crisis. 13. Silence, loss, and catastrophe ; 14. The modern Mediterranean
  • Conclusion : What is to be done?

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