Book ID: CBB000071915

Nature and society in historical context (1997)

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Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1997
Edition Details: Edited by Mikuláš Teich, Porter, Roy, and Gustafsson, Bo.
Physical Details: xv + 404 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Gellner, Ernest: Knowledge of nature and society. Janko, Jan: Two conceptions of the world in Greek and Roman thought: Cyclicity and degeneration. Mavrommatis, Lenos: Byzantine fools: The link between nature and society. Philo, Chris: The “chaotic spaces” of medieval madness: Thoughts on the English and Welsh experience. Jaritz, Gerhard, Winiwarter, Verena: On the perception of nature in a Renaissance society. Burke, Peter: Fables of the bees: A case-study on views of nature and society. Schaffer, Simon: The Earth's fertility as a social fact in early modern England. Grove, Richard: The island and the history of environmentalism: The case of St Vincent. Herlitz, Lars: Art and nature in pre-classical economics of the 17th and 18th centuries. Porter, Roy: The urban and the rustic in Enlightenment London. Engelhardt, Dietrich von: Science, society, and culture in the Romantic Naturforschung around 1800. Witoszek, Nina: The anti-Romantic Romantics: Nature, knowledge and identity in 19th-century Norway. Radkau, Joachim: The wordy worship of nature and the tacit feeling for nature in the history of German forestry. Stewart, Mart A.: “Let us begin with the weather”: Climate, race, and cultural distinctiveness in the American South. Strohmeier, Gerhard: Wild West imagery: Landscape perception in 19th-century America. Kuper, Adam: On human nature: Darwin and the anthropologists. Farber, Paul Lawrence: The siren of evolutionary ethics: Darwin to Wilson. Teich, Mikuláš: Mapping the human genome in the light of history. Borgström, Bengt-Erik: The way the world is going: The society-nature dichotomy in development rhetoric. Gustafsson, Bo: Nature and economy. Bayertz, Kurt: The nature of morality and the morality of nature: Problems of normative natural philosophy.


Reviewed By

Review Stafford, W. (1998) Review of "Nature and society in historical context". English Historical Review (pp. 1400-1). unapi

Review Knight, D. (1997) Review of "Nature and society in historical context". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 627-28). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Kuper, Adam (1997) On human nature: Darwin and the anthropologists. In: Nature and society in historical context (p. 274). unapi

Chapter Teich, Mikuláš (1997) Mapping the human genome in the light of history. In: Nature and society in historical context (p. 308). unapi

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