Book ID: CBB208491222

The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1870 (2018)

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Warde, Paul (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 416
Language: English

The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This groundbreaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how sustainability was closely linked to hopes for growth, and the destiny of expanding European states, from the sixteenth century. Weaving together aspirations for power, for economic development and agricultural improvement, and ideas about forestry, climate, the sciences of the soil and of life itself, this book sets out how new knowledge and metrics led people to imagine both new horizons for progress, but also the possibility of collapse. In the nineteenth century, anxieties about sustainability, often driven by science, proliferated in debates about contemporary and historical empires and the American frontier. The fear of progress undoing itself confronted society with finding ways to live with and manage nature.

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Review Jeremy Caradonna (April 2021) Review of "The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1870". Environmental History (pp. 358-361). unapi

Review Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (2020) Review of "The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1870". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 148-149). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Skeehan, Danielle C.
Blom, Philipp
Bentancor, Orlando
Dell'Oro, Giorgio
González Espitia, Juan Carlos
Camana, Carla
Concepts
Colonialism
Imperialism
Science and society
Environmental history
Great Britain, colonies
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
16th century
Early modern
20th century
Places
Europe
North America
India
Atlantic world
Africa
Americas
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