David Arnold (School of Oriental and University of African Studies

The Problem of Nature

Environment and Culture in Historical Perspective

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work shows how historians, geographers and philosophers have invoked nature in its various manifestations - climate, topography, vegetation, wildlife and disease - as a dynamic force in human history. It covers a whole cycle of environmental history and its interpretation

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Produktdetails

• New Perspectives on the Past
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780631190219
• ISBN-10: 063119021X
• Artikelnr.: 22447515

Autorenporträt

David Arnold is Professor of South Asian History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His previous books include Famine: Social Crisis and Historical Change and Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword.
1. Introduction.
2. The Place of Nature.
3. Reappraising Nature.
4. Environment as Catastrophe.
5. Crossing Biological Boundaries.
6. The Ecological Frontier.
7. The Environmental Revolution.
8. Inventing Tropicality.
9. Colonizing Nature.
Conclusion.
Guide to Further Reading.
Index.