Nature and Power

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 culture and by the vagaries of human nature itself. Environmental history, the author argues, is ultimately the history of human hopes and fears.

Author: Joachim Radkau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/11/2008
Pages: 450
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780521851299

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/25/2008 pg. 16
Choice 03/01/2009

About the Author
Radkau, Joachim: - Joachim Radkau is Associate Professor of History at Universität Bielefeld in Germany. His books include Deutsche Industrie und Politik von Bismarck bis zur Gegenwart (1974). Holz: Ein Naturstoff in der Technikgeschichte (in collaboration with Ingrid Schäfer, 1987), Das Zeitalter der Nervosität: Deutschland zwischen Bismarck und Hitler (1998), and the biography of Max Weber, Die Leidenschaft des Denkens (2005).