Surroundings a history of environments and environmentalisms
"The English word "environment" dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the concept that it was invented to describe is not much older. Only since the late eighteenth century, and only in certain contexts, has it become common to believe that life can best be explained in environment...
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Chicago
The University of Chicago Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2334703.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What was an environment?
- The world in the museum: natural history and the invention of organisms and environments in post-revolutionary Paris
- Environments of empire: disease, race, and statistics in the British Caribbean
- The urban milieu: evolutionary theory and social reform in progressive Chicago
- The biosphere as battlefield: strategic materials and systems theories in a world at war
- The evolution of risk: toxicology, consumption, and the US environmental movement
- The human planet: globalization, climate change, and the future of civilization on Earth
- Conclusion: what might the environment become?