Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Editors’Acknowledgement
- 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
Index of Names
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Editors’Acknowledgement
- 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
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Mappae MundiHumans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective, pp. 461 - 464Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2002