Dirt the erosion of civilizations / [electronic resource] :
David R. Montgomery.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
- 1 online resource (ix, 285 p. :)́ : ill., maps
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and index.
Good old dirt -- Skin of the Earth -- Rivers of life -- Graveyard of empires -- Let them eat colonies -- Westward hoe -- Dust blow -- Dirty business -- Islands in time -- Life span of civilizations.