Natur und Macht

The relation of mankind and nature in history has attracted considerable interest in recent years, and a rapidly growing body of scholarship in environmental history provides evidence that this relationship is far from simple. A wealth of empirical data and a diversity of theories and ideological objectives that appear to resist any plausible synthesis have precipitated an oft-lamented state of fragmentation in the literature. Now Joachim Radkau, a historian at Bielefeld University, seeks to repair this fragmentation by daring to assay nothing less than a world history of the environment. The result is impressive

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