An environmental history of India : from earliest times to the twenty-first century / Michael H. Fisher, Oberlin College.

"The relatively young but rapidly expanding field of formal environmental history informs us ever more about vital patterns of interactions among humans, other living beings, and the material world. Climate change, species extinction, unequally distributed and overstrained essential resources (...

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Main Author: Fisher, Michael Herbert, 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:New approaches to Asian history ; 18.
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