Nature and Power - A Global History of the Environment (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Publications of the German Historical Institute
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Joachim Radkau
Translators:	Thomas Dunlap
Dimensions:	231 x 159 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	450
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-61673-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	0-521-61673-5
Barcode:	9780521616737

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