An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome Download

Author: Lukas Thommen
Edition: Revised
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0521174651

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome (Key Themes in Ancient History)

In ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. Download An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome (Key Themes in Ancient History) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. On the one hand, nature was conceived as a space characterized and inhabited by divine powers, which deserved appropriate respect. On the other, a rationalist view emerged, according to which humans were to subdue nature using their technologies and to dispose of its resources. This book systematically describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans intervened in the environment and thus traces the history of the tension between the exploitation of resources and the protection of nature, from early Greece to the period of late antiquity. At the same time it analyses the comprehensive Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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