World without end
Subtitle: environmental disaster and the collapse of empires
By: Ian Whyte.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781845110550
Subjects: Human ecology -- History; Global environmental change -- Social aspects -- History; Environmental disasters -- Social aspects -- History
Other titles: Environmental disaster and the collapse of empires
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Environmental change 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