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164 x 240 x 37mm
An Environmental History Of The Twentieth Century World
Although human beings have been reshaping the face of the earth for millennia, there can be no question that the twentieth century has witnessed environmental transformations of a scale and subtlety never before seen, the consequences of which remain among the most worrisome riddles of our common future.'JOHN McNEILL has taken on the heroic assignment of synthesizing for the first time the environmental history of the entire planet during the twentieth century, making Something New Under the Sun essential reading for anyone wanting to know where we've been and where we're headed' William Cronon, author of Nature's Metropolis
