5 книг
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Robert Macfarlane
ISBN: 0241143810, 978-0241143810 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Hamish Hamilton Язык: Английский РазвернутьIn The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, of pilgrimage and ritual, and of songlines and their singers. Above all this is a book about people and place: about walking as a reconnoitre inwards, and the subtle ways in which we are shaped by the landscapes through which we…
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Ружья, микробы и сталь. История человеческих сообществ Джаред Даймонд
ISBN: 978-5-17-101162-8 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: АСТ Язык: Русский Почему европейская, а позже и евро-атлантическая цивилизации добились самых грандиозных успехов в истории человечества? Почему именно Европа, сначала самостоятельно, а позднее — вместе с Соединенными Штатами Америки, создала тот мир, в котором мы живем сейчас? Что предопределило мировую гегемонию европейского мировоззрения — промышленность, сила оружия или нечто иное? И какое влияние на мировоззрение не только отдельного человека, но и целых народов и даже рас оказывает окружающая среда? Обо всем этом и многом другом рассуждает в своей книге Джаред Даймонд —автор, удостоенный Пулитцеровской премии.
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Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop: 1500-2000 Джеймс Макканн
ISBN: 978-0674025578 Год издания: 2007 Издательство: Harvard University Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьSometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops--one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic world. Africa's experience with maize is distinctive but also instructive from a global perspective: experts predict that by 2020 maize will become the world's most cultivated crop. James McCann moves easily from the village level to the continental scale, from the medieval to the modern, as he explains the science of maize production and explores how the crop has imprinted itself on Africa's…
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History Sidney W. Mintz
ISBN: 978-0140092332 Год издания: 1985 Издательство: Penguin Books РазвернутьA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers…
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Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge Edward Struzik
ISBN: 978-1610917179 Год издания: 2016 Издательство: Island Press РазвернутьIn one hundred years, or even fifty, the Arctic will look dramatically different than it does today. As polar ice retreats and animals and plants migrate northward, the Arctic landscape is morphing into something new and very different from what it once was. While these changes may seem remote, they will have a profound impact on a host of global issues, from international politics to animal migrations. In Future Arctic, journalist and explorer Edward Struzik offers a clear-eyed look at the rapidly shifting dynamics in the Arctic region, a harbinger of changes that will reverberate throughout our entire world. Future Arctic reveals the…
