Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /
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Format: Book
Language: English
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New Haven [Connecticut] :
Yale University Press,
[2015].
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Call Number: GF13.3 .M47 M34 2015
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| 100 | 1 | |a McGregor, James H. |q (James Harvey), |d 1946- |e author |9 35719 | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Back to the garden : |b nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present / |c James H.S. McGregor. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New Haven [Connecticut] : |b Yale University Press, |c [2015]. | |
| 300 | |a xii, 366 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : How Did We Get Here? -- Part I. Forging First Nature -- 1. The Paleolithic Landscape -- 2. Neolithic Revolutions -- 3. The Spread of Fanning Culture -- 4. Uruk and Egypt, the Great Powers -- 5. The Primacy of Landscape in West Asia -- 6. Mediterranean Trade and Regional Cooperation -- Part II. Perseverance and Attack -- 7. The Greek Link between Landscape and Cosmology -- 8. Roman Agriculture: Three Case Studies -- 9. Medieval Christian Ecological Understanding -- 10. Muslim Ecological Understanding -- 11. Renaissance Landscape and Food -- 12. Mechanistic Models and Romantic Wilderness -- Part III. Age of Crisis -- 13. Silence, Loss, and Catastrophe -- 14. The Modern Mediterranean -- Conclusion : What Is to Be Done?. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Human ecology |z Mediterranean Region |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Agriculture |z Mediterranean Region |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Mediterranean Region |x History. | |
| 901 | |a reviewed | ||
| 942 | |c BK |2 lcc | ||
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