George Perkins Marsh - Prophet of Conservation

David Lowenthal is professor emeritus of geography at University College London. His books include The Past Is a Foreign Country, West Indian Societies, and The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword by William Cronon

Preface

Woodstock and the First Watershed

Burlington: Blunders and Bereavements

Puritans, Vikings, Goths

Congress and the Smithsonian

American History from the Ground Up

Constantinople and the Desert

Missionary Miseries, Mediterranean Jaunts

Debts and Dromedaries

Vermont Public Servant

The English Language

Risorgimento and Civil War

Turin and the Alps

Man and Nature: The Making

Man and Nature: The Meaning

Florence and Unfinished Italy

Last Watersheds: Rome, Cravairola, Vallombrosa

Retrospect: Forming a Life

Prospect: Reforming Nature

Abbreviations in Notes and bibliography

Notes

Bibliography

Illustration credits

Index

About the author

David Lowenthal is professor emeritus of geography at University College London. His books include The Past Is a Foreign Country, West Indian Societies, and The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History.

Summary

George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. This book offers insights, from sources, into Marsh's career and shows his relevance.

Product details

• Authors: David Lowenthal
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2003
• EAN: 9780295983158
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98315-8
• No. of pages: 632
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 916 g
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food