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Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and Politics

By Derek Wall

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1994
ISBN
041507925X, 9780415079259
LCC
GE195 .W35 1994
Open Library ID
OL1418386M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1653227 bytes)
Pages
288\285
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This traces the development of ecological writing through history and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements reinforcing the importance of environmental concern and action in our own time. Animal rights, ecology as science, feminism, green facism/socialism/anarchism, land reform, peaceful protest, industrialisation, ancient ecology, evolution, grassroots activism, philosophical holism, recycling, Taoism, demographics, utopias, sustainability, spiritualism...all these issues and many more are discussed. Authors include Alice Walker on massacre in the City of Brotherly Love, Aldous Huxley on progress, Lewis Mumford on the organic outlook, Engels on natural dialectics, Thoreau on the fontier life, the Shelleys on vegetarianism and playing God, Bacon on the New Atlantis, Hildegard of Bingen on green vigour, the unknown writer of the Bodhisattva and the Hungry Tigress and Plato on soil erosion. Each article is set within its historical and thematic context. A full introduction and a guide to further reading are also provided.

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