Understanding the cultural landscape

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Title:

Understanding the cultural landscape

Author:

Wallach, Bret, 1943-

ISBN:

9781593851194

9781593851200

Personal Author:

Wallach, Bret, 1943-

Publication Information:

New York : Guilford Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

x, 406 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Human evolution, diffusion, and culture -- Ch. 3. Foragers -- Ch. 4. Domestication -- Ch. 5. The diffusion and early development of agriculture -- Ch. 6. The emergence of civilization -- Ch. 7. China -- Ch. 8. India -- Ch. 9. A technological civilization -- Ch. 10. Globalization -- Ch. 11. Resource production -- Ch. 12. Manufacturing -- Ch. 13. Services -- Ch. 14. Transportation and communication -- Ch. 15. Romantic responses -- Ch. 16. Political reactions -- Ch. 17. Conservation, natural resources, and population -- Ch. 18. Pollution, biodiversity, and climate change -- Ch. 19. American cities -- Ch. 20. Rural America -- Ch. 21. Cities abroad -- Ch. 22. Countrysides abroad.

Subject Term:

Human geography.

Human ecology.

Nature -- Effect of human beings on.

Landscape assessment.

Landscape changes.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/guilford051/2004024793.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024793.html

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Summary

This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe. Coverage ranges from the earliest societies to preindustrial China and India, from the emergence in Europe of the modern world to the contemporary global economy. The focus is on what the places we have created say about us: our belief systems and the ways we make a living. Also explored are the social and environmental consequences of human activities, and how conflicts over the meaning of progress are reflected in today's urban, rural, and suburban landscapes. Written in a highly engaging style, this ideal undergraduate-level human geography text is illustrated with over 25 maps and 70 photographs.

Note: Visit www.greatmirror.com for many additional photographs by Bret Wallach related to the themes addressed in this book.