Southeast Asia: An Environmental History
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Southeast Asia: An Environmental History
By (Author) Peter Boomgaard
Edited by Mark R. Stoll
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ABC-CLIO
14th December 2006
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Economic history
333.70959
Physical Properties
Hardback
392
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
964g
Description
From Angkor Wat to Agent Orange, Southeast Asia An Environmental History tells the story of some of the most dramatic effects humans have had on the natural and developed environment anywhere in the world and examines the ways in which environmental factors have helped shape the culture, politics, and societies of the region. * The book includes 17 tables of climate features and socioeconomic variables * Each chapter comes with a bibliographic essay
Author Bio
Peter Boomgaard, Ph.D., is senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden, the Netherlands, and professor of environmental history of Southeast Asia at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
