Product Description

In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of the recurring human and environmental crises identified as Dark Ages. In this, his second of a three-volume series concerning world ecological degradation, Chew reviews the past 5,000-year history of structural conditions and processes that define the relationship between nature and culture. Chew's message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarcity and climate changes, is a must-read for those concerned with human interactions and environmental changes, including environmental anthropologists and historians, world historians, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental scientists.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2087950 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Review
The world system has evolved and continues to do so. The question is what drives this evolutionary process. Sing Chew has developed a substantial argument built around intermittent and, hitherto, poorly understood Dark Ages. Chew shines an analytical light on the phases of deterioration that we usually ignore while favoring the periods of growth and expansion. Yet it is unlikely that you can have one without the other.--William Thompson