Green History - A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and Politics (Hardcover)

"Green History" traces the development of ecological writing through history, and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements reinforcing the importance of environmental concern and action in our own time. Animal rights, ecology as science, feminism, green facism/ socialism/ anarchism, land reform, peaceful protest, industrialization, ancient ecology, evolution, grassroots activism, philosophical holism, recycling, Taoism, demographics, utopias, sustainability and spiritualism - all of these issues and more are discussed. Authors include Alice Walker on massacre in the City of Brotherly Love, Aldous Huxley on progress, Lewis Mumford on the organic outlook, Engles on natural dialectics, Thoreau on the frontier life, the Shelleys on vegetarianism and playing God, Bacon on the New Atlantis, Hildegard of Bingen on green vigour, the unknown writer of the Bodhisattva and the Hungry Tigress and Plato on soil erosion. Each article is set within its historical and thematic context, and a full introduction and a guide to further reading are also provided.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1993
First published:	1994
Editors:	Derek Wall
Dimensions:	246 x 189mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-07924-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Demonstrations & protest movements Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-07924-1
Barcode:	9780415079242

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