Enlightenment''s Frontier - The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

Zusammenfassung Looks at the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment - which gave birth to modern-day environmentalism - and sheds new light on Scottish thinkers such as Carl Linneaus! David Hume and Adam Smith. In this book! the author argues that Smith's defence of free markets was actually based on idealized notions of self-regulating natural systems.

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• Authors: Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2013
• EAN: 9780300162547
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16254-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Scotland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, C 1700 To C 1800, PHILOSOPHY / Environmental