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Nature's economy : a history of ecological ideas / Donald Worster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Worster, Donald, 1941-
- Series:
- Studies in Environment and History
- Studies in environment and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecology--History.
- Ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (528 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; PART ONE Two Roads Diverged: Ecology in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 1 Science in Arcadia; Chapter 2 The Empire of Reason; PART TWO The Subversive Science: Thoreau's Romantic Ecology; Chapter 3 A Naturalist in Concord; Chapter 4 Nature Looking into Nature; Objectivity versus Sympathy; Partiality versus Total Apprehension; Mechanism versus the Life Force; Inhumanity versus Reverence for Life; Indoor Science versus Indian Wisdom; Chapter 5 Roots and Branches; PART THREE The Dismal Science: Darwinian Ecology
- Chapter 6 A Fallen WorldChapter 7 The Education of a Scientist; Chapter 8 Scrambling for Place; The Logic of a Reluctant Revolution; Chapter 9 The Ascent of Man; PART FOUR O Pioneers: Ecology on the Frontier; Chapter 10 Words on a Map; Chapter 11 Clements and the Climax Community; Chapter 12 Dust Follows the Plow; PART FIVE The Morals of a Science: Ethics, Economics, and Ecology; Chapter 13 The Value of a Varmint; Chapter 14 Producers and Consumers; Chapter 15 Declarations of Interdependence; PART SIX The Age of Ecology: Science and the Fate of the Earth; Chapter 16 Healing the Planet
- The New PhysiciansChapter 17 Disturbing Nature; The Disorder of History; Notes; Glossary of Terms; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 14, 2013).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-26431-6
- 1-107-26680-7
- 1-107-26323-9
- 1-107-26987-3
- OCLC:
- 855503318
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