"The weirdest of all undertakings": The land and the early industrial revolution in Oldham, England

From: Environmental History | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

IN MANY WAYS the history of humankind, of civilization, has been a history of distancing ourselves from the natural environment. Until relatively recently the most significant development in this process was the expansion of settled agrarian societies. This "Neolithic revolution," while making us less dependent upon nature's bounty, was still intimately connected to natural processes and had to work with and accommodate them. Soil fertility, rainfall, wind, insect invasions, flooding, and other natural factors made manifest the limits to expansion and humanity's dependence upon the natural ...

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