The problem of nature: environment and culture in historical perspective (Record no. 4290)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780631190219 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 304.209 ARN/P |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Arnold, David |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The problem of nature: environment and culture in historical perspective |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Wiley-Blackwell -- |
| Place of publication | United kingdom -- |
| Year of publication | 1996 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | viii, 199p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Foreword. <br/><br/>1. Introduction. <br/><br/>2. The Place of Nature. <br/><br/>3. Reappraising Nature. <br/><br/>4. Environment as Catastrophe. <br/><br/>5. Crossing Biological Boundaries. <br/><br/>6. The Ecological Frontier. <br/><br/>7. The Environmental Revolution. <br/><br/>8. Inventing Tropicality. <br/><br/>9. Colonizing Nature. <br/><br/>Conclusion. <br/><br/>Guide to Further Reading. <br/><br/>Index.<br/> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Environmental sciences |
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| Topical Term | Environmental sciences History |
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| Topical Term | Environmental sciences Philosophy |
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| Topical Term | Natural history |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Natural sciences |
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| Koha item type | Book |
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