Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367152320 ISBN 13 : 9780367152321

Editeur : Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across Europe and the wider world as to how to improve land and climate for human benefit. This discourse eventually promoted the reconsideration of long-held beliefs about the role of climate in upholding the social order, driving economies and affecting public health.

Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World explores the relationship between cultural perceptions of the environment and practical attempts at environmental regulation and change between 1500 and 1800. Taking a cultural and intellectual approach to early modern environmental governance, this edited collection combines an interpretative perspective with new insights into a period largely unfamiliar to environmental historians. Using a rich and multifaceted narrative, this book offers an understanding as to how efforts to enhance productive aspects of the environment were both led by and contributed to new conceptualisations of the role of 'nature' in human society.

This book offers a cultural and intellectual approach to early modern environmental history and will be of special interest to environmental, cultural and intellectual historians, as well as anyone with an interest in the culture and politics of environmental governance.

　

　

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sara Miglietti is an Assistant Professor of French Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.

John Morgan is an environmental and social historian, and a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367152320
• ISBN 13: 9780367152321
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Éditeur: Miglietti Sara
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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