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The Problem of Nature: Environment and Culture in Historical Perspective

ISBN: 978-0-631-19021-9
Paperback
208 pages
September 1996, Wiley-Blackwell
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Foreword.

1. Introduction.

2. The Place of Nature.

3. Reappraising Nature.

4. Environment as Catastrophe.

5. Crossing Biological Boundaries.

6. The Ecological Frontier.

7. The Environmental Revolution.

8. Inventing Tropicality.

9. Colonizing Nature.

Conclusion.

Guide to Further Reading.

Index.