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Man's role in changing the face of the earth.
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Man's role in changing the face of the earth.

Author: William Leroy Thomas
Publisher: Chicago, Published for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation by the University of Chicago Press [1956]
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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International Symposium on Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (1955 : Princeton, N.J.)
Man's role in changing the face of the earth.
Chicago, Published for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation by the University of Chicago Press [1956]
(OCoLC)645686534
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Leroy Thomas
ISBN: 0226796043 9780226796048 0226796051 9780226796055
OCLC Number: 276231
Credits: Published for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the National Science Foundation.
Description: xxxviii, 1193 p. illus., maps (part fold. col. on lining papers) 25 cm.
Contents: Our world from the air: conflict and adaptation / E.A. Gutkind --
pt. 1. Retrospect: Man's tenure of the Earth --
Through the corridors of time --
pt. 2. Process: Introductory --
Man's effects on the seas and waters of the land --
Alterations of climatic elements --
Slope and soil changes through human use --
Modifications of biotic communities --
Ecology of wastes --
Urban-industrial demands upon the land --
pt. 3. Prospect: Limits of man and the Earth --
The role of man --
pt. 4. Summary remarks.
Responsibility: Edited by William L. Thomas, with the collaboration of Carl O. Sauer, Marston Bates [and] Lewis Mumford.

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