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OPTIMUM POPULATION TRUST JOURNAL APRIL 2004
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Roger Martin took up the challenge that I offered him of making a comparison between Clive Ponting‟s, A Green History of the World and William Stanton‟s, The Rapid Growth of Human Populations 1750-2000. His overview of the two books, with his insightful comparison of styles, makes interesting reading; that is where we start, pages 3-5, finishing with a quotation from Green History. To give a further briefing on Stanton‟s book, pages 6 and 7 provide a detailed resumé extracted mainly from the publisher‟s introduction and the book itself. Pages 7-11 focus on another Clive Ponting book, published in 2000, World History: a New Perspective. In it, he continues to make use of his Green History idea — that the human narrative can be told in terms of human interaction with the environment — but this book is about twice the length of Green History, and also covers the political history of the world. Perhaps two major themes emerge. First, that western Europe has until recently only been a minor figure in world civilization‟s ten thousand year tapestry. Second, that while history does need to deal with the incessant struggle for power between states, and between the élites within those states, there has nearly always been another important struggle going on, namely that of the élites determined to maintain their superior status.
Andrew Ferguson - Personal Name
fouth edition
NONE
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English
April 2004
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