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Nature's evil : a cultural history of natural resources / Alexander Etkind ; translated by Sara Jolly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ėtkind, Aleksandr, 1955- author.
- Series:
- New Russian thought
- Standardized Title:
- Priroda zla. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Natural resources--History.
- Natural resources.
- Natural resources--Government policy--History.
- Economic history.
- Natural resources--Government policy.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Polity Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Russian.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 History of Matter
- 1. Cry Fire
- 2. Grain's Way
- 3. The Remains of Foreign Bodies
- 4. Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice
- 5. Fibres
- 6. Metals
- pt. 2 History of Ideas
- 7. Resources and Commodities
- 8. Resource Projects
- 9. Labour and the Mercantile Pump
- 10. The Resources that Failed
- pt. 5 History of Energy
- 11. Peat
- 12. Coal
- 13. Oil.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1509547584
- 9781509547586
- OCLC:
- 1229088010
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