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100			_aArnold, David _91539
245		4	_aThe problem of nature: environment and culture in historical perspective
260			_bWiley-Blackwell -- _aUnited kingdom -- _c1996
300			_aviii, 199p.
500			_aForeword. 1. Introduction. 2. The Place of Nature. 3. Reappraising Nature. 4. Environment as Catastrophe. 5. Crossing Biological Boundaries. 6. The Ecological Frontier. 7. The Environmental Revolution. 8. Inventing Tropicality. 9. Colonizing Nature. Conclusion. Guide to Further Reading. Index.
520			_aThis 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			_aEnvironmental sciences _911484
650			_aEnvironmental sciences History _911485
650			_aEnvironmental sciences Philosophy _911486
650			_aNatural history _911487
650			_aNatural sciences _98154
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