World without end?
Subtitle: environmental disaster and the collapse of empires
By: Ian Whyte.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781845110550
Subjects: Human ecology.; Global environmental change.; Disasters -- Social aspects.
Table of contents: title: Environmental changes and human response in perspective: the last 12,000 years; title: Environmental systems and processes; title: Hunters and hunter-gatherers; title: Early agricultural societies; title: Early civilisations and empires; title: Medieval and early modern societies; title: Modern developed societies; title: The modern less developed world; title: Postscript: Environmental change in the future.