Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England

by Ted Steinberg

Book Overview

A great deal of arrogance surrounds this late-twentieth-century attitude toward the environment, and a great deal of history as well. What started as a research paper at Brandeis University expanded into a book that explores the role of the Industrial Revolution in this aggressive stance toward the natural world. The transformation of nature is at least as old as our presence as a species on this planet. But the advent of the industrial age marked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870239430
• ISBN13: 9780870239434
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher