Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /

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Main Author: McGregor, James H. 1946- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2015].

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Call Number: GF13.3 .M47 M34 2015

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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. 
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