Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /: nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James H.S. McGregor.
• Authors: McGregor, James H (James Harvey), 1946-
• Contents: Introduction : How did we get here? -- Part I. Forging First Nature. 1. The Paleolithic landscape ; 2. Neolithic revolutions ; 3. The spread of farming 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?
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 366 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 304.2/091822; Human ecology -- Mediterranean Region -- History; Agriculture -- Mediterranean Region -- History; Environmental responsibility -- Mediterranean Region; NATURE -- Ecology; HISTORY -- Social History; HISTORY -- Historical Geography; Environmental responsibility; Agriculture; Human ecology; Mediterranean Region -- History; Mediterranean Region -- Environmental conditions -- Social aspects; Méditerranée, Région de la -- Histoire; Mediterranean Region; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300210620; 0300210620
• Related ISBNs: 9780300197464; 0300197462
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-353) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.