Global Environmental History

Catalog description

Environmental history from a global perspective, covering a broad time span and examining both how humans have shaped their environment and how they are shaped by it. Topics include hunter-gatherer societies, the environmental forces which fostered sedentary societies, the rise and fall of early civilizations, and the relationship of water, wind, coal, steam, petroleum and other energy forms to human development and environmental processes. Examination of the dynamic interplay between the environment and social forces such as trade, imperialism, labor, public health, population growth, consumption, and social movements.