Environmental history has gripped the attention of scholars all over the world. In this penultimate round of struggle for co-existence between man and nature, we have arrived at the last stage of survival strategy. Therefore, environmental issues has come to the forefront of all disciplines. History coordinates the views from the past to the future. It provides the hindsight to this emerging area of disconcert to mankind. Were this stages of environmental degradation? What lessons can we draw from the past experience? This volume proves this past for the answer to the future.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chittabrata Palit
Dr. Chittabrata Palit, M.A. (Cal), PhD (Cantab), FRAS (Londan) is a senior professor of history at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He is an established authority on the subject. He has served as a member of the National Commission for the History of science(1987-2001), principal investigator of a project on Science and nationalism for the Indian National science Academy for the last six years and currently he principal investigator of a UGC major project on Pharmacy in the Ayurvedic Texts in eastern India. He has numerous books on the history of sciences including medicine to his credit.
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