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Please contrast and compare the three major books we have read in the course (by Hughes, Krech, and Cronon in relation to the themes of resource use and nature as commodity. Drawing upon supplementary material answer the question: How do these authors’ works provide specific evidence about the history and significance of resource use and economics over time?

Books that are being compared:

1). Hughes, J. Donald. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean, second ed., revised. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

2). Krech, Shepard. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

3) Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.