The Problem of Nature

出版者:Wiley-Blackwell

作者:David Arnold

页数:208

出版时间:1996-9-30

价格:USD 52.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780631190219

图书标签:环境史新文化史历史

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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非常棒的環境史入門書。 也是學習如何寫Critical Review和Geneaology的範本。

Environment, culture and European expansion

非常棒的環境史入門書。 也是學習如何寫Critical Review和Geneaology的範本。

Environment, culture and European expansion

Environment, culture and European expansion