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Record #154800:
Something new under the sun: an environmental history of the Twentieth Century world / John R. McNeill.
Title: | Something new under the sun: an environmental history of the Twentieth Century world / John R. McNeill. |
Author(s): | McNeill, John R. |
Date: | 2000. |
Publisher: | London: Penguin |
Abstract: | Informative overview of extent to which human beings have changed their environment during past one hundred years. Argues that future historians will consider this environmental transformation as overshadowing century's wars, rise and fall of Communism, and other major political and social upheavals. |
Keywords: | 502 -- Environmental issues. 551.588 -- Climate, effect of man and environment. 5(091) -- History of science. F -- Biological sciences. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 502 |
ISBN: | 0713994622 |
SPRI record no.: | 154800 |
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