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Nature's evil : a cultural history of natural resources / Alexander Etkind ; translated by Sara Jolly.

Lippincott Library HC85 .E85 2021
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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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