Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment (Publications of the German Historical Institute) - Hardcover

Radkau, Joachim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521851297 ISBN 13: 9780521851299

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Nature and Power traces the expanding scope of environmental action over the course of history: from initiatives undertaken by individual villages and cities, environmental policy has become a global concern. Efforts to steer human use of nature and natural resources have become complicated, as Nature and Power shows, by particularities of culture and by the vagaries of human nature itself. Environmental history, the author argues, is ultimately the history of human hopes and fears.

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Book Description:

Nature and Power explores the interaction between humanity and the natural environment from prehistoric times to the present. It explores human attempts to control nature as well as the efforts of societies and states to regulate people's use of nature and natural resources

About the Author:

Joachim Radkau is Associate Professor of History at Universität Bielefeld in Germany. His books include Deutsche Industrie und Politik von Bismarck bis zur Gegenwart (1974). Holz: Ein Naturstoff in der Technikgeschichte (in collaboration with Ingrid Schäfer, 1987), Das Zeitalter der Nervosität: Deutschland zwischen Bismarck und Hitler (1998), and the biography of Max Weber, Die Leidenschaft des Denkens (2005).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521851297
• ISBN 13: 9780521851299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 450