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The wealth of nature : environmental history and the ecological imagination / Donald Worster

Worster, Donald,i1941- [Verfasser]

New York [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 1994

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (x, 255 pages)

Book of essays which previously appeared in various journals or books or given as lectures

Includes bibliographical references and index

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

1-4237-3851-9 ; 978-1-4237-3851-0 ; 1-60256-003-X ; 978-1-60256-003-1 ; 1-280-44183-6 ; 978-1-280-44183-7 ; 978-0-19-509264-6 ; 0-19-509264-3 ; 978-0-19-507624-0 ; 0-19-507624-9 ; 0-19-509264-3

AR 14000

 

USA  Umwelt  Geschichte 

 

Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history. Winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl, Worster has helped bring humanity's interaction with nature to the forefront of historical thinking. Now, in The Wealth of Nature, he offers a series of thoughtful, eloquent essays which lay out his views on environmental history, tying the study of the past to today's agenda for change. The Wealth of Nature captures the fruit of w.