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Nov 21, 2024
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HIST 158 PZ -Ecological History Institution: Pitzer
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.
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