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

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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Human ecology > Mediterranean Region > History.
Agriculture > Mediterranean Region > History.
Mediterranean Region > History.

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Call Number: GF13.3 .M47 M34 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • 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?.