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Nature and power : a global history of the environment / Joachim Radkau ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Publications of the German Historical InstitutePublication details: Washington, D.C. German Historical Institute Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 2008Edition: 1. English edDescription: xvii, 430 s. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521851299
  • 0521851297
  • 9780521616737
  • 0521616735
Uniform titles:
  • Natur und Macht
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2 22
LOC classification:
  • GF13 .R335 2008
Other classification:
  • Uhb:k
Online resources:
Contents:
Thinking about environmental history -- The ecology of subsistence and tacit knowledge: primeval symbioses of humans and nature -- Water, forests, and power -- Colonialism as a watershed in environmental history -- At the limits of nature -- In the labyrinth of globalization -- Epilogue: how to argue with environmental history in politics

"First published in German as Natur und Macht by Joachim Radkau 2002"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-407) and index

Thinking about environmental history -- The ecology of subsistence and tacit knowledge: primeval symbioses of humans and nature -- Water, forests, and power -- Colonialism as a watershed in environmental history -- At the limits of nature -- In the labyrinth of globalization -- Epilogue: how to argue with environmental history in politics

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