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The Norton history of the environmental sciences / Peter J. Bowler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowler, Peter J.
- Series:
- Norton history of science
- Standardized Title:
- Fontana history of the environmental sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental sciences--History.
- Environmental sciences.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 634 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : W.W. Norton, 1993.
- Summary:
- In The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences, Peter J. Bowler chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins, brilliantly synthesizing the discoveries in geography, geology, and evolutionary biology that have brought us to our current knowledge of the fragility and connectedness of life on Earth and created the new science of ecology.
- Contents:
- The problem of perception
- The ancient and medieval worlds
- Renaissance and revolution
- Theories of the earth
- Nature and the enlightenment
- The Heroic Age
- The philosophical naturalists
- The age of evolution
- The earth sciences
- Darwinism triumphant
- Ecology and environmentalism.
- Notes:
- Originally published in England under the title: The Fontana history of the environmental sciences.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [554]-606) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393035352 :
- 0393310426
- OCLC:
- 27974548
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