Keywords:
Human ecology--History.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781317200284
Series Statement:
Routledge Environmental Humanities Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=4831592
DDC:
304.20903
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: ruling 'climates' in the early modern world -- 1 Climate, travel and colonialism in the early modern world -- 2 Jean Bodin and the idea of anachorism -- 3 Marshes as microclimates: governing with the environment in early modern France -- 4 Mastering north-east England's 'River of Tine': efforts to manage a river's flow, functions and form, 1529-c.1800 -- 5 'Take plow and spade, build and plant and make the wasteland fruitful': Gerrard Winstanley and the importance of labour in governing the earth -- 6 Winter and discontent in early modern England -- 7 "A considerable change of climate": glacial retreat and British policy in the early-nineteenth-century Arctic -- 8 'Vast factories of febrile poison': wetlands, drainage, and the fate of American climates, 1750-1850 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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