Crimea and the Black Sea: An Environmental History
Journal: The AAG Review of Books
Year: 2017

Language studies and earth science are typically viewed as very different subjects, as indeed they are, but they need not be envisaged as mutually exclusive.To wit, in this book Carlos Cordova melds his biogeographic and geoarchaeological expertise with his polyglot skills and insights to produce an environmental history like no other.Most environmental histories are crafted by historians who are masters at weaving beautiful-and all too frequently overly simplified, if not untrue-stories from of