Soil and Civilization by Edward Hyams
Soil and Civilization

Edward Hyams

Soil and Civilization

Edward Hyams

312 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

history informative slow-paced
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Edward Hyams explores the relationships between human societies and the soil. He contrasts the civilizations based on the rich alluvial soils of the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates and Indus with Athens which produced crops on poor soils. Carthage, Rome a...

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