The Problem of Nature : Environment and Culture in Historical Perspective
by
David Arnold
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Perspectives on the Past
ISBN-10
063119021X
ISBN-13
9780631190219
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint
Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 23rd, 1996
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
316 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.80 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
History: theory & methodsHistorical geographyThe environment
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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
This book considers how nature - in both its biological and environmental manifestations - has been invoked as a dynamic force in human history. It shows how historians, philosophers, geographers, anthropologists and scientists have used ideas of nature to explain the evolution of cultures, to understand cultural difference, and to justify or condemn colonization, slavery and racial superiority. It examines the central part that ideas of environmental and biological determinism have played in theory, and describes how these ideas have served in different ways at different times as instruments of authority, identity and defiance. The book shows how powerful and problematic the invocation of nature can be.
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