HIST 158 PZ -Ecological History

Institution: Pitzer College

Description: This interdisciplinary course examines the historical relationship between humans and the natural environment from a global perspective. We will explore broad themes including early human environmental impacts, the agricultural revolutions, the collapse of early civilizations, health and disease ecology, processes of deforestation and desertification, the transformation in energy regimes, the paradox of population growth, the rise of environmentalism and the conservation movement, and the crisis of modern agriculture and diet.