South Asia
Subtitle: An Environmental History (Nature and Human Societies)
Contributors: Mark Stoll (Editor)
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: July 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781851099252
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Human ecology; Science; Environmental Studies; Science/Mathematics; South East Asia; Environmental Science; General; Human Geography; Science / General
Description: "Ranging from prehistory to the present and encompassing the whole Asian subcontinent, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, South Asia: An Environmental History offers the first chronologically organized environmental history of a staggeringly complex region. By focusing on the crucial reciprocal relationship between South Asia's inhabitants and their environment, it explores the effect of humans on their surroundings, as well as the influence of nature on the evolution of South Asian cultures."--Jacket.