Man's Role In Changing The Face Of The Earth: Volume 1
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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What happens when humanity becomes the single greatest force reshaping the planet? Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, Volume 1 presents the landmark proceedings of an international symposium convened by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation, bringing together the era's foremost minds — among them Carl O. Sauer, Marston Bates, and Lewis Mumford — to examine the profound and far-reaching consequences of human activity on the natural world. Edited by William L. Thomas, Jr., this foundational volume chronicles the ways in which civilizations across time have transformed landscapes, depleted resources, altered climates, and reshaped ecosystems, drawing on disciplines ranging from geography and ecology to history and anthropology. A sweeping interdisciplinary synthesis, the work argues with quiet urgency that humanity's dominion over nature is neither neutral nor consequence-free, weaving together scientific rigour with humanistic insight to construct a sobering portrait of our species as geological and ecological agent. Published by the University of Chicago Press, it stands as a seminal text in the history of environmental thought — one that anticipated the modern environmental movement by decades. Readers who begin with this first volume will find themselves compelled to question not just what we have done to the Earth, but what, if anything, can still be undone.
Author: William L. Thomas, Jr.
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image.
What happens when humanity becomes the single greatest force reshaping the planet? Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth, Volume 1 presents the landmark proceedings of an international symposium convened by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation, bringing together the era's foremost minds — among them Carl O. Sauer, Marston Bates, and Lewis Mumford — to examine the profound and far-reaching consequences of human activity on the natural world. Edited by William L. Thomas, Jr., this foundational volume chronicles the ways in which civilizations across time have transformed landscapes, depleted resources, altered climates, and reshaped ecosystems, drawing on disciplines ranging from geography and ecology to history and anthropology. A sweeping interdisciplinary synthesis, the work argues with quiet urgency that humanity's dominion over nature is neither neutral nor consequence-free, weaving together scientific rigour with humanistic insight to construct a sobering portrait of our species as geological and ecological agent. Published by the University of Chicago Press, it stands as a seminal text in the history of environmental thought — one that anticipated the modern environmental movement by decades. Readers who begin with this first volume will find themselves compelled to question not just what we have done to the Earth, but what, if anything, can still be undone.