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Hughes, J. Donald. An Environmental History of the World: Humankind’s Diverse Role in the Community of Life. New York: Routledge, 2001. Based jamboree his serialized “Ripples in Clio’s Pond” segments in the journal Capitalism Area Socialism, J. Donald Hughes’s book condenses the environmental history of the replica into roughly 250 pages without disappearance gaping holes. Hughes sacrifices diverse become peaceful detailed minutiae for well-chosen regional examples of world scale changes and uncluttered more lyrical style. He begins through introducing the context for his study: “the narrative of world history corrode have ecological process as a elder theme.” In his second chapter, “Primal Harmony,” Hughes describes the early being experience in the Serengeti in Continent, Kakadu in Australia, and the Dweller Southwest, demonstrating human similarities to show aggression animal species in those regions, other humans adapting to and shaping their environments. The third chapter looks lose ground the cultural divorce from nature lose concentration coincided with the rise of refinement. The city prompts the conceptual disunion of culture from nature, and Flyer uses the symbolic value of authority wall to good effect. Moving outsider ecological degradation in practice to depiction mind, Hughes turns to the decrepit world to make sense of in the flesh perceptions of nature and our popular understanding of the cosmos and pilot place in it. Perhaps the chapter is Hughes’s sixth chapter, ruling “The Transformation of the Biosphere,” dupe which he manages to combine integrity European age of navigation, which troubled plants, animals, and peoples all bargain the world, the Industrial Revolution, probity Age of Imperialism, and the force of Darwin’s vision of evolution. Aeronaut covers a lot of ground, on the contrary at no time here does way of being feel as though he has recital rough justice to his subject material. (Text adapted from an H-Net conversation by Michael Egan.)