| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.4

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Book Review

Mappae Mundi: Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps, and Models. Edited by Bert de Vries and Johan Goudsblom. Amsterdam [Netherlands]: Amsterdam University Press; distributed in the United States by the University of Chicago Press, 2003. 470 pp. Figures, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, index.
In the past decade a number of studies have developed a long-term perspective on the relationship between humans and the environment. Johan Goudsblom, Fire and Civilization (Viking Adult, 1992), Fred Spier, The Structure of Big History (Amsterdam, 1996), Steven Pyne's series of volumes on world fire, and David Christian's prize-winning Maps of Time (California, 2004) are among the more important works.	1
Mappae Mundi: Humans and their Habitats in a Long-Term Socio-Ecological Perspective: Myths, Maps, and Models is an important addition to this emerging literature. The fruit of a collaboration between leading members of what might be called "the Dutch school" of ecohistorical study, Mappae Mundi consists of a series of interrelated chapters that place the changing relations of humans and their habitats in the perspective of the very long term.	. . .

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