The Problem of Nature: Environment and Culture in Historical Perspective

by David Arnold

Book Overview

This 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 063119021X
• ISBN13: 9780631190219
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"