Donald Worster engages with key political, economic, and environmental thinkers while presenting his own interpretation of the role of capitalism and government in issues of wealth, abundance, and scarcity. Acknowledging the earth's agency throughout human history, Shrinking the Earth offers a compelling explanation of how we have arrived where we are today and a hopeful way forward on a planet that is no longer as large as it once was.
Donald Worster engages with key political, economic, and environmental thinkers while presenting his own interpretation of the role of capitalism and government in issues of wealth, abundance, and scarcity. Acknowledging the earth's agency throughout human history, Shrinking the Earth offers a compelling explanation of how we have arrived where we are today and a hopeful way forward on a planet that is no longer as large as it once was.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Donald Worster is Honorary Director of the Center for Ecological History at the University of Remnin of China and Hall Distinguished Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Kansas and. He is the author of many books, including A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (OUP, 2008); Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930's (OUP, 2004); A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (OUP, 2000); The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (OUP, 1993); and Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West (OUP, 1993).
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue: Gatsby's Green Light Part One: Second Earth The Age of Abundance Begins Many Revolutions Follow Ultimately, Stability Field Trip: Nantucket Island Part Two: After the Frontier The Watershed Land of Coal and Steel The Resourceful State Field Trip: Imperial Valley Part Three: Planet of Limits Plunder and Plenty David Potter's America A Wolf over the Hill Earth's Boundaries Field Trip: Athabasca River Epilogue: Life on a Pale Blue Dot Notes Acknowledgments Index
Prologue: Gatsby's Green Light Part One: Second Earth The Age of Abundance Begins Many Revolutions Follow Ultimately, Stability Field Trip: Nantucket Island Part Two: After the Frontier The Watershed Land of Coal and Steel The Resourceful State Field Trip: Imperial Valley Part Three: Planet of Limits Plunder and Plenty David Potter's America A Wolf over the Hill Earth's Boundaries Field Trip: Athabasca River Epilogue: Life on a Pale Blue Dot Notes Acknowledgments Index
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