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The Mountains of the Mediterranean World

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Mountains of the Mediterranean World
Authors and Contributors      By (author) J. R. McNeill
SeriesStudies in Environment and History
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:448
Dimensions(mm): Height 231,Width 159
Category/GenreWorld history
World history - BCE to c 500 CE
World history - c 500 to C 1500
World history - c 1500 to c 1750
World history - c 1750 to c 1900
World history - from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521522885
ClassificationsDewey:909.091822
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 18 December 2003
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This book describes and analyses the environmental history of the mountain areas of the Mediterranean world, focusing on Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Morocco. The author examines the land and its people and concludes that great changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries created the often barren and depopulated countrysides of today. These changes, he suggests, lie behind much of the social and political turbulence of modern times as mountain people came to terms with worsening conditions. Written in a lively style, the book is the first environmental history of the Mediterranean area.