Surroundings : a history of environments and environmentalisms / Etienne S. Benson.
Surroundings : a history of environments and environmentalisms / Etienne S. Benson.
Surroundings : a history of environments and environmentalisms / Etienne S. Benson.
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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G 2020/5881
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English
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278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: What was an environment? -- The world in the museum: natural history and the invention of organisms and environments in post-revolutionary Paris -- Environments of empire: disease, race, and statistics in the British Caribbean -- The urban milieu: evolutionary theory and social reform...
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2020.
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"The English word "environment" dates to the mid-nineteenth century, and the concept that it was invented to describe is not much older. Only since the late eighteenth century, and only in certain contexts, has it become common to believe that life can best be explained in environmental terms. Surroundings is the first full history of the concept -...
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Surroundings : a history of environments and environmentalisms / Etienne S. Benson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ebook version : 9780226706320
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G 2020/5881
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74VKaqPb2Amb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaqPb2Amb
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9780226706153 hardcover
022670615X hardcover
9780226706290 paperback
022670629X paperback
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363.700973
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991024324719702626
