The complete online text of The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George Perkins Marsh.

George Perkins Marsh (15 March 1801-23 July 1882), philologist and miscellaneous writer, was born in Woodstock, Vermont. His cousin was James Marsh, the philosopher-president of the University of Vermont. Marsh graduated from Dartmouth College in 1820 wi...

George Perkins Marsh is known today primarily as the author of Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (1864), one of the most original and farsighted books of the nineteenth century. In an era devoted to the limitless exploita...

The writings of George Perkins Marsh encompass one of the broadest ranges of those of any scholar and public figure in nineteenth-century America. A lawyer, legislator, philologist, linguist, diplomat, and geographer, he produced works on topics as varie...

Abstract The incomplete skeletal remains of a young adolescent (10-12 years of age) were recovered from the uppermost 1ayer of ah earth-oven at the Qaranicagi Site (Y2-39), Waya Island, Fiji. Analysis of the remains revealed minimal tire of heat alteration. Cut marks...

Non-linear modelling systems are being proposed to reevaluate the development of human cultures together with the natural environment. These models are intended to destroy the assumption that human cultures have steadily and linearly progressed towards a high degree of economic and social development from...