Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800

ISBN-13: 9780140146868 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 432 str.

Sir Keith Thomas

Opis

Presents an account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800.

Recenzje

Man and the Natural World, an encyclopaedic study of man's relationship to animals and plants, is completely engrossing ... It explains everything - why we eat what we do, why we plant this and not that, why we keep pets, why we like some animals and not others, why we kill the things we kill and love the things we love ... It is often a funny book and one to read again and again. Paul Theroux Sunday Times

O autorze

Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was formerly President of Corpus Christi College and, before that, Professor of Modern History and Fellow of St John's College. RELIGION AND DECLINE OF MAGIC, his first book, won one of the two Wolfson Literary Awards for History in 1972. He was knighted in 1988 for services to the study of history.