Nature and Power : A Global History of the Environment Paperback / softback
by Joachim (Universitat Bielefeld, Germany) Radkau
Part of the Publications of the German Historical Institute series
Paperback / softback
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:450 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/02/2008
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- ISBN:9780521616737
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:450 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/02/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521616737
