| Description |
273 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Ancient wisdom -- Ecology and early urban civilization -- The origins of environmental danger -- Theories of breakdown -- Putting the Earth first -- Gaia -- Philosophical holism -- The web of life -- Against growth -- Sustainable development -- The Frankenstein factor -- Peaceful protest -- The city and the country -- Eco-feminism -- Spititual awakenings -- Literary roots -- Green revolutionaries -- Green politics -- Utopia or else! |
| Summary |
This book traces the development of ecological writing through history. Authors include Alice Walker on massacre in the City of brotherly love, Aldous Huxley on progress, Lewis Mumford on the organic outlook, Engels on natural dialectics, Thoreau on the frontier life, the Shelleys on vegetarianism and playing God, Bacon on the New Atlanits, Hildegard of Bingen on green vigour, the unknown writer of the Bodhisattva and the Hungry tigress, and Plato on soil erosion. Each article is set within its historical and thematic context. -- book cover |
| Analysis |
Environment Conservation History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 258-262 |
| Subject |
Environmental policy -- History.
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Environmental sciences -- Philosophy -- History.
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Green movement -- History.
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| LC no. |
93028232 |
| ISBN |
0415079241 (HB) |
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041507925X (paperback) |
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