Research Catalog

Title

Gaia and the fate of Midas : wrenching planet Earth / Richard Krooth.

Author

Krooth, Richard.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2009], ©2009.

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Description

xxxiv, 702 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subjects

• Gaia hypothesis
• Global environmental change

Contents

Pt. I. Wrenching Planet Earth: On to the Anthrocene -- Pt. II. Empires Past; Issues Present -- Ch. 1. Greek Tragedy: Sacrificing Nature -- Ch. 2. Rome's Legions of Exploitation -- Ch. 3. Roman Rule; Islamic Embryo -- Ch. 4. The Seas of Galilee -- Ch. 5. Heat Scours the Fertile Crescent and the Rice Bowl East -- Pt. III. European Stepping Stones -- Ch. 6. This Spectered Isle: A Dickens' Story -- Ch. 7. Plowing with Swords: Crusaders Sow Hate, Reap Defeat, Waste Land -- Ch. 8. Markets, Money and Mysteries Haunt Crusaders -- Ch. 9. Rural Angst, Urban Bulge -- Ch. 10. Black Rats, Black Death & The Siege of Black Soil -- Pt. IV. Bible, Bullion & Biogenesis -- Ch. 11. Before and After Cross and Crown -- Ch. 12. Alien Transgressions -- Ch. 13. A Roomful of Gold; the Ransom of Death -- Pt. V. British Raj Rising -- Ch. 14. Crises & the Quest for Empire -- Ch. 15. The Grim Face of Eden -- Ch. 16. Potato Rot; Irish Exodus -- Ch. 17. Waves to Pacific Mandalay -- Ch. 18. Tale of the Sandwich Islands -- Ch. 19. Searing Australia's Atmosphere -- Ch. 20. Maori and a Dance Macabre -- Ch. 21. Into the Heart of Imperial Darkness -- Ch. 22. Corvee on the Nile -- Pt. VI. The East Is Bled -- Ch. 23. Xanadu & Fertile Crescent Redux -- Ch. 24. White Man's Burden; Captives Clothed in Chains -- Ch. 25. India's Sub(jugated) Continent -- Ch. 26. Eco-Avalanches on the Roof of the World -- Pt. VII. The Veil Is Rent -- Ch. 27. Workshops. Sweatshops Go Global, Heating Planet Earth -- Ch. 28. Empire, Hubris & Ecocide -- Ch. 29. Earth's Fatal Eclipse -- Ch. 30. Gaia, We Never Knew You -- Ch. 31. Thermal End Game: Entropy and Extinction -- About Gaia & the Fate of Midas.

ISBN

• 9780761845089
• 0761845089

LCCN

40016736977

OCLC

• ocn298782043
• 298782043
• SCSB-5472399

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries