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Enlightenment's Frontier: The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780300162547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Enlightenment's Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith's famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that sought to transform the soil, plants, and climate of Scotland in the eighteenth century. The Highlands offered a vast outdoor laboratory for rival liberal and conservative views of nature and society. But when the improvement schemes foundered toward the end of the century, northern Scotland...
Enlightenment's Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natu...
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463,59 zł |
Green Victorians: The Simple Life in John Ruskin's Lake District
ISBN: 9780226339986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life--one without constant, environmentally damaging growth--might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sufficiency has been largely forgotten. Green Victorians tells the story of a circle of men and women in the English Lake District who attempted to create a new kind of economy, turning their backs on Victorian consumer society in order to live a life dependent not on material abundance and social prestige but on artful simplicity and...
From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life--one without constant, envir...
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191,47 zł |
Scarcity in the Modern World: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075
ISBN: 9781350040915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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571,67 zł |