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.
發表於2024-12-27
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圖書標籤: 環境史 新文化史 曆史
Environment, culture and European expansion
評分Environment, culture and European expansion
評分Environment, culture and European expansion
評分非常棒的環境史入門書。 也是學習如何寫Critical Review和Geneaology的範本。
評分Environment, culture and European expansion
The Problem of Nature 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載