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Nature and Power: A Global History of the Environment (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Nature and Power A Global History of the Environment - Publications of the German Historical Institute Author:Joachim Radkau Nature and Power traces the expanding scope of environmental action over the course of history: from initiatives undertaken by individual villages and cities, environmental policy has become a global concern. Efforts to steer human use of nature and natural resources have become complicated, as Nature and Power shows, by particularities of cultu... more »re and by the vagaries of human nature itself. Environmental history, the author argues, is ultimately the history of human hopes and fears.« less
ISBN-13: 9780521851299 ISBN-10: 0521851297 Publication Date: 2/4/2008 Pages:448 Edition:1st English Ed Rating: