Nature and power : a global history of the environment

Author(s)

• Radkau, Joachim

Bibliographic Information

Nature and power : a global history of the environment

Joachim Radkau ; translated by Thomas Dunlap

（Publications of the German Historical Institute）

German Historical Institute , Cambridge University Press, 2008

1st English ed

• hard
• pbk.

Note

"First published in German as Natur und Macht by Joachim Radkau 2002"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-407) and index

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book aims to demonstrate that the changing relationship between humanity and nature is key to understanding world history. Humans have been grappling with environmental problems since prehistoric times, and the environmental unsustainability of human practices has often been a decisive, if not immediately evident, shaping factor in history. The measures that societies and states have adopted to stabilize the relationship between humans and the natural world have repeatedly contributed to environmental crises over the course of history. Nature and Power traces the expanding scope of environmental action: from initiatives undertaken by individual villages and cities, environmental policy has become a global concern. Efforts to steer human use of nature and natural resources have become complicated, as Nature and Power shows, by particularities of culture and by the vagaries of human nature itself. Environmental history, the author argues, is ultimately the history of human hopes and fears.

Table of Contents

• 1. Thinking about environmental history
• 2. The ecology of subsistence and tacit knowledge - primeval symbioses between humans and nature
• 3. Water, forests, and power
• 4. Colonialism as a watershed in environmental history
• 5. At the limits of nature
• 6. In the labyrinth of globalization
• Conclusion.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA86374584
• ISBN:
  • 9780521851299
  • 9780521616737
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.,Cambridge ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 430 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Human ecology -- History
  • LCSH : Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18253010