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Author LaFreniere, Gilbert F.

Title The decline of nature : environmental history and the Western worldview / Gilbert F. LaFreniere
Published Bethesda, MD ; London : Academica Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description xv, 457 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Ch. 1. The Cycle in Nature and History -- Ch. 2. Ecology and the Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilizations -- Ch. 3. Worldviews and the Classical-Medieval Metanoia -- Ch. 4. The Ecological Transformation of Western Europe -- Ch. 5. The Scientific Revolution and the Domination of Nature -- Ch. 6. Enlightenment I: The Idea of Progress -- Ch. 7. Enlightenment II: Nature and the Idea of Nature in Eighteenth Century Europe -- Ch. 8. European Colonization and the Exploitation of Resources on a Global Scale -- Ch. 9. Modernity and its Discontents -- Ch. 10. The Twentieth Century Road to Ruin -- Ch. 11. The Environmental Movement -- Ch. 12. The Problem of Economic Growth and the Western Worldview -- Ch. 13. Nature and the Philosophy of History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Environmental degradation -- Western countries.
Human ecology -- History.
Human ecology -- Philosophy.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Western countries.
SUBJECT Western countries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003008962 -- Environmental conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384
LC no. 2007021825
ISBN 1933146400
1933146516 (paperback)
9781933146409
9781933146515 (paperback)