Mappae Mundi : : Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps and Models / / ed. by Bert de Vries, Johan Goudsblom.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Dronin, Nikolai M.,; Goudsblom, Johan,; Greef, Jodi de,; Leeuw, Sander van der,; Marchant, Robert,; Revi, Aromar,; Thompson, Michael,; Vries, Bert de,; Westbroek, Peter,; Wirtz, Kai,
• HerausgeberIn: Goudsblom, Johan,; Vries, Bert de,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2002]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.) :; 39 colour 64 black and white illustrations

The interaction between humans and their natural environment today is unprecedented in its scope and complexity, and recent scholarly research attests to the need for a multidisciplinary approach to fully study it. Mappae Mundi answers this call for a scholarly synthesis, illuminating dominant socia...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Editors’Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: Towards a Historical View of Humanity and the Biosphere
• 2. Introductory Overview: the Expanding Anthroposphere
• 3. The Holocene: Global Change and Local Response
• 4. Environment and the Great Transition: Agrarianization
• 5. Exploring the Past: on Methods and Concepts
• 6. Increasing Social Complexity
• 7. Empire: the Romans in the Mediterranean
• 8. Understanding: Fragments of a Unifying Perspective
• 9. Population and Environment in Asia since 1600 AD
• 10. The Past 250 Years: Industrialization and Globalization
• 11. Back to Nature? The Punctuated History of a Natural Monument
• 12. Conclusions: Retrospect and Prospects
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the authors
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names
• Index of Geographic Names