Man and Nature

Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

By:

George Perkins Marsh

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics

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In "Man and Nature", first published in 1864, polymath scholar and diplomat George Perkins Marsh challenged the general belief that human impact on nature was generally benign or negligible and charged that ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean had brought about their own collapse by their abuse of the environment. By deforesting their hillsides and eroding their soils, they had destroyed the natural fertility that sustained their well-being. Marsh offered his compatriots in the United States a stern warning that the young American republic might repeat these errors of the ancient world if it failed to end its own destructive waste of natural resources. Marsh's ominous warnings inspired conservation and reform. In linking culture with nature, science with history, "Man and Nature" was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", published just five years earlier.

Author Biography:

David Lowenthal is professor emeritus of geography at University College London. His books include George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History, and The Past Is a Foreign Country.

Release date Australia

April 1st, 2003

Author

George Perkins Marsh

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited by David Lowenthal
Foreword by William Cronon

Pages

512

Series

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics

Dimensions

155x229x31

ISBN-13

9780295983165

Product ID

3640281

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