Nature and Power - A Global History of the Environment

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Thinking about environmental history; 2. The ecology of subsistence and tacit knowledge - primeval symbioses between humans and nature; 3. Water, forests, and power; 4. Colonialism as a watershed in environmental history; 5. At the limits of nature; 6. In the labyrinth of globalization; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Joachim Radkau
• Assisted by: Thomas Dunlap (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521616737
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61673-7
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute; Publications of the German His; Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous