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In the world today nature limps under the exploitation of man, as also the forests and the living creatures that dwell within them. It is necessary therefore that a world history be written from the perspective of the weak; of that which has been controlled and exploited. What must be exposed is the truth that has been buried in our conventional understanding of a world history. This book brings us a diversity of stories concerning the relationship between the ...
Until recently the history of human civilization was viewed mainly through the Western perspective, which gave the impression that the Western part of the world was central to the development of culture. In the process the Eastern world, particularly the Far East, was overlooked and neglected. Recent research by Japanese and Chinese scholars has however demonstrated that this region witnessed the developments of the world's earliest human civilization, based on ...
It is a fact that climate plays an important role in determining the growth and decline of human cultures. Climatologists an archaeologists all over the globe have been striving hard to reconstruct past climates and study their impacts on human cultures right from Stone Age times. The present volume Monsoon and Civilization has contributions from internationally acclaimed specialists primarily on global climate changes, with special reference to the monsoon ...