Research Catalog

Title

The making of the Cretan landscape / Oliver Rackham & Jennifer Moody.

Author

Rackham, Oliver.

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Moody, Jennifer Alice.

Description

xvii, 237 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 18 x 25 cm.

Subject

• Landscapes > Greece > Crete > History
• Human geography > Greece > Crete
• Crete (Greece) > Description and travel
• Crete (Greece) > Historical geography

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Index: p. 218-237

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Chronology -- 2. History, pseudo-history, and the use of evidence -- 3. Making the mountains -- 4. Weather and water -- 5. Wild animals -- 6. Wild trees and plants -- 7. Domestic animals and plants -- 8. People and settlements -- 9. Place-names -- 10. Vegetation -- 11. Vegetation history -- 12. Terraces, fields, and enclosures -- 13. Boots, mules and roads -- 14. Shepherding -- 15. Buildings -- 16. Sacred landscapes -- 17. The high mountains -- 18. Coasts and the sea -- 19. Islets -- 20. Conservation and the future.

ISBN

• 0719036461
• 071903647X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^93049016^//r98

OCLC

• 29597607
• SCSB-10449519

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library