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Informationen zum Autor Anthony N. Penna is Professor Emeritus of History, Northeastern University. His books include Nature's Bounty: Historical and Modern Environmental Perspectives (1999), Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings (co-editor, 2009), and Natural Disasters in a Global Environment (co-author; Wiley, 2013). Klappentext The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History, Second Edition, presents a multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its origins to the present day.* Provides a comprehensive, global, multidisciplinary history of the planet from its earliest origins to the present era* Draws on the most recent research in geology, climatology, evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, history, demography and the social and physical sciences* Features the latest research findings on planetary history, human evolution, the green agricultural revolution, climate change, global warming and the nature of world/human history interdependencies* Offers in-depth analyses of topics relating to human evolution, agriculture, population growth, urbanization, manufacturing, consumption, industrialization, and fossil fuel dependency. Zusammenfassung The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History, Second Edition, presents a multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its origins to the present day. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 The Nature of World History 1 The Nature of Big History 2 The Nature of World Environmental History 3 Earth's History and Human Origins 3 Mass Migrations and the Rise of Agriculture 4 Population Growth and the Rise of Cities 8 Cities and the Rise of Manufacturing and Industry 9 World Trade and New World Ecology 10 Fossil Fuels and Climate Change 11 Notes 12 1 An Evolving Earth 15 Introduction 15 The Origins of Earth and Its Unique Atmosphere: From Hot to Cold Planet 16 Icehouse Planet and Greenhouse Planet 18 Plate Tectonics, Super-continents, and Climate Change 20 The Warming 21 The Cooling 25 The Elevation of the Tibetan Plateau and Its Effect on the Global Climate 26 The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of the Mediterranean Sea and Its Hemispheric Environmental Effects 32 The Impact of the Isthmus of Panama on Global Climate Change 34 The Mid-Pliocene, Glacial and Interglacial Cycles, and "Modern" Times 35 Notes 38 2 Evolving Humanity 41 Introduction 41 Climatic Changes and Evolution 42 Another Effect of the Closing of the Mediterranean Sea 44 Human Ancestry 45 The Birth of Human Intelligence 46 Early Diets and Their Nutritional Value 51 Translating Human Intelligence into Action 54 Tectonic Upheavals, Landscape Changes, and Climate 55 Population Migration and Expansion 56 Homo Neanderthalensis vs. Homo Sapiens 58 The Broad Spectrum: An Economic Revolution 63 Notes 65 3 Foraging, Cultivating, and Food Production 69 Introduction 69 Early Farming and a Warming Climate 70 Settlement and Domestication 72 Early Agricultural Communities 74 Early Agriculture in China 77 Early Agriculture in Africa 79 Early Agriculture in Mesoamerica 80 Early Agriculture in Europe 81 World Agriculture during the Age of Manufacture and Industry 82 The First Green Revolution, 1840-1930 87 The Second Green Revolution, 1945- 88 Agro-business, Food Prices, and Climate Change 94 Notes 95 4 Populating the Earth: Diet, Domestication, and Disease 99 Introduction 99 A Modern Demographic Scenario 100 The Role of Disease in Calculating Population Size 102
