Thinking about the Environment: Our Debt to the Classical and Medieval Past
The contributions to this volume explore and uncover contemporary scholarship’s debt to the classical and medieval past.
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George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation
George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh’s career and shows his relevance today.
Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology
This volume brings together, for the first time—in Italy or for an English-speaking audience—a collection of over 40 authors from this deep and broad tradition of Italian environmental writing.
Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
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.
Shen Hou on "Nature Conservation"
Shen Hou, Carson Fellow from February to July 2011, talks about her research project at the RCC. It explores the introduction, reception, and transformation of American ideas of nature conservation, and related practices in China.
Publication of John Muir's Our National Parks
In his 1901 book, American conservationist and nature writer John Muir promoted a transcendentalist idea of national parks as wild places of inspirational beauty.
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Thoreau's Walden
Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden is considered one of the most important works of nature writing and became highly influential for the environmental movement.
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Marsh’s Man and Nature
The American diplomat and philologist George Perkins Marsh publishes Man and Nature.
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Hartig's Instructions for the Taxation of Forests
In his 1791 work, Georg Ludwig Hartig advocates a new strategy for sustainable forest management.
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Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things
Titus Lucretius Carus’s work is an extended reflection on the role of man within nature, influenced by Epicureanism.
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