Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
In linking culture with nature, science with history, Man and Nature was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
Excerpt from The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology by John Bellamy Foster.
Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies.
Book profile for The Limits to Growth.
Full volume of Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering edited by Francesca Mezzenzana and Daniela Peluso.
