Table of contents for A new green history of the world : the environment and the collapse of great civilizations / Clive Ponting.

Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.

Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.

CONTENTS 
List of Maps vii 
List of Tables and Charts vii 
Preface ix 
1 The Lessons of Easter Island 1 
2 The Foundations of History 8 
3 Ninety-nine per cent of Human History 17 
4 The First Great Transition 36 
5 Destruction and Survival 67 
6 The Long Struggle 87 
7 Ways of Thought 116 
8 The Rape of the World 137 
9 The Foundations of Inequality 171 
10 Disease and Death 199 
11 The Weight of Numbers 231 
12 The Second Great Transition 265 
13 The Rise of the City 294 
14 Creating the Affluent Society 314 
15 Polluting the World 342 
16 The Threat to Global Systems 380 
17 The Shadow of the Past 409 
Guide to Further Reading 424 
Index 435 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Natural history.
Natural resources.
Pollution.
Social change.