In States of Nature, I trace an alternative prehistory to environmental thought in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century debates about revolution. I argue that proponents of revolution understood the state of nature not only as a philosophical abstraction but also through their engagements with science, agriculture, and frontier settlement. By contrast, conservatives claimed that revolution would disrupt the relational networks they imagined as vitally entangling human and nonhuman life. In particular, Edmund Burke describes ideal national communities as intricately interwoven, yet tenuous, social ecologies: evolving networks that bind together past, present, and future generations. In the opening chapters, I depict Burke not as a reactionary ...
45 pagesDescartes’s famous declaration, “I think therefore I am,” is one of the most referenced stat...
Nature's History identifies a series of episodes in the history of American landscape representation...
Is democracy hazardous to the health of the environment? Addressing this and related questions, Bob ...
In States of Nature, I trace an alternative prehistory to environmental thought in eighteenth- and n...
196 pagesThis dissertation reveals connections between social reform and environmental thought and p...
This essay explores one way of understanding how concepts of human nature and the natural world evol...
Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searc...
Preface / Hans Bak, Walter W. Hölbling; I. GENERAL (RE)CONSIDERATIONS. The greening of the red man: ...
Richard Judd and Christopher Beach define the environmental imagination as the attempt to secure \u2...
Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers...
The invention of the Americas in the wake of the European conquests was based upon imaginaries and a...
Americans’ perceptions of nature determine in what ways they physically interact with their environm...
If we conceive of American naturalism as a literature about appetite and environment, then why have ...
Protecting the natural environment and promoting sustainability have become important objectives, bu...
In the early 1970s the Gaia hypothesis of James E. Lovelock and Lynn Margulis proposed that self-reg...
45 pagesDescartes’s famous declaration, “I think therefore I am,” is one of the most referenced stat...
Nature's History identifies a series of episodes in the history of American landscape representation...
Is democracy hazardous to the health of the environment? Addressing this and related questions, Bob ...
In States of Nature, I trace an alternative prehistory to environmental thought in eighteenth- and n...
196 pagesThis dissertation reveals connections between social reform and environmental thought and p...
This essay explores one way of understanding how concepts of human nature and the natural world evol...
Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searc...
Preface / Hans Bak, Walter W. Hölbling; I. GENERAL (RE)CONSIDERATIONS. The greening of the red man: ...
Richard Judd and Christopher Beach define the environmental imagination as the attempt to secure \u2...
Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers...
The invention of the Americas in the wake of the European conquests was based upon imaginaries and a...
Americans’ perceptions of nature determine in what ways they physically interact with their environm...
If we conceive of American naturalism as a literature about appetite and environment, then why have ...
Protecting the natural environment and promoting sustainability have become important objectives, bu...
In the early 1970s the Gaia hypothesis of James E. Lovelock and Lynn Margulis proposed that self-reg...
45 pagesDescartes’s famous declaration, “I think therefore I am,” is one of the most referenced stat...
Nature's History identifies a series of episodes in the history of American landscape representation...
Is democracy hazardous to the health of the environment? Addressing this and related questions, Bob ...