THE STEPPE TO EUROPE by Lajos Racz, Alan Campbell (Trans) ( 9781874267768 )

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Title:

THE STEPPE TO EUROPE
AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF HUNGARY IN THE TRADITIONAL AGE

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1874267766

ISBN 13:

9781874267768

Publisher:

WHITE HORSE PRESS

Pub. date:

15 July, 2013

Pages:

268

Description:

A HISTORY OF HUNGARY'S PEOPLE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY An account of Hungary's past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally-relevant research findings.

Synopsis:

This book, a much-augmented translation of the author's original Hungarian version, is an account of Hungary's past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally-relevant research findings. Data on climate, agriculture, mining, hunting, urban development and political administration are synthesised to create a rich account of a people in the environment, and the processes of adaptation, exploitation and co-existence required for survival. Importantly, it offers anglophone readers access a considerable digest of important scholarship previously only available in Hungarian. Until now, there has been no environmental history in English of Hungary and the wider region from which the present country crystallised. The book covers the environmental history of Hungary prior to the Industrial Revolution. It begins with the prehistory of the two protagonists in this environmental story, the Carpathian Basin and the Hungarians; and traces the transformation of the Hungarians, under environmental, social and economic forces, from nomadic tribes to a settled society in the Middle Ages.The environmental developments of the later Middle Ages, a period of relative stability, are explored before the story turns to a long era of war with the Ottoman Empire, during which the key to survival lay in finding adaptive forms of settlement and subsistence systems. Finally, the book chronicles the age of reconstruction following the Ottoman wars and the challenges posed as the country's population more than doubled, a growth unmatched by agricultural or industrial development. The present volumes leaves Hungary at the dawn of the Industrial Age, a country displaying symptoms of over-population and environmental over-exploitation.

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black & white illustrations

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White Horse Press

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Non-returnable

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