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Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
George Perkins Marsh
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Paperback. Challenges the general belief that human impact on nature was generally benign or negligible and charged that ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean had brought about their own collapse by their abuse of the environment. Editor(s): Lowenthal, David. Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 790.
In Man and Nature, first published in 1864, polymath scholar and diplomat George Perkins Marsh challenged the general belief that human impact on nature was generally benign or negligible and charged that ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean had brought about their own collapse by their abuse of the environment. By deforesting their hillsides and eroding their soils, they had destroyed the natural fertility that sustained their well-being. Marsh offered his compatriots in the United States a stern warning that the young American republic might repeat these errors of the ancient world if it failed to end its own destructive waste ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295983165
SKU
V9780295983165
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About George Perkins Marsh
David Lowenthal is professor emeritus of geography at University College London. His books include George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History, and The Past Is a Foreign Country.
Reviews for Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
"Widely recognized as the book that launched the conservation movement, this is truly an environmental classic..The immense historical sweep of the book is incredible, surveying human impacts on nature since Roman times..Masterfully edited and annotated by David Lowenthal, the leading biographer and scholar on Marsh."
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