Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /
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Language: English
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New Haven [Connecticut] :
Yale University Press,
[2015].
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Call Number: GF13.3 .M47 M34 2015
Table of Contents:
- •Acknowledgments •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? •Notes •Bibliography •Index