Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy, and PoliticsTaylor & Francis US, 1994 - 273 pages Green History traces the development of ecological writing through history and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements reinforcing the importance of environmental concern and action in our own time. Animal rights, ecology as science, feminism, green fascism/socialism/anarchism, land reform, peaceful protest, industrialization, ancient ecology, evolution, grassroots activism, philosophical holism, recycling, Taoism, demographics, utopias, sustainability, spiritualism ...all these issues and many more are discussed. Authors include Alice Walker on massacre in the City of Brotherly Love, Aldous Huxley on progress, Lewis Mumford on the organic outlook, Engels on natural dialectics, Thoreau on the fontier life, the Shelleys on vegetarianism and playing God, Bacon on the New Atlantis, Hildegard of Bingen on green vigour, the unknown writer of the Bodhisattva and the Hungry Tigress and Plato on soil erosion. Each article is set within its historical and thematic context. A full introduction and a guide to further reading are also provided. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 8 |
Ancient wisdom | 19 |
Hughes | 31 |
Lead and lead poisoning in antiquity 1983 | 41 |
Theories of breakdown | 53 |
P Gilman | 77 |
7 | 89 |
Mumford | 100 |
Peaceful protest | 149 |
The city and the country | 165 |
Mumford The culture of cities 1938 | 172 |
Goodison Were the Greeks Green? 1992 | 179 |
Literary roots | 205 |
Green revolutionaries | 215 |
Green politics | 227 |
Utopia or else | 239 |
G White | 107 |
9 | 115 |
Sustainable development | 125 |
G P Marsh Recycling and destruction 1874 | 133 |
J Needham Taoism and science 1956 | 139 |
43 | 242 |
Suggested further reading | 250 |
Bibliography | 258 |
263 | |
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Common terms and phrases
Alice Walker America ancient animals argued beasts beauty become birds Blake body Cambridge Carlyle century Chapter Christians cities civilization concept Conservation creation creatures culture D. H. Lawrence death deep ecology destruction divine E. F. Schumacher earth Eco-feminism Ecologist economic Edward Carpenter England environment environmental existence factory flesh forest Frankfurt school fruit Goddess Greek Green movement Green politics growth Heaven Hildegard of Bingen holism holistic human ideas industrial Islam Kibbo Kift labour land living London look machine mankind Marx Marxism means mechanical metals mind modern Green Morris Mother nature non-violence organic philosophy plants poet population principle production progress radical religion Roman Ruskin Shelley social socialist society soil soul species spirit Taoism things Thoreau thought tion tradition trees University Press utopian vegetarian wealth White Goddess whole wild women Woodcraft Folk woods Worster