Green History: A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and PoliticsDerek Wall Routledge, 2003 M09 2 - 288 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
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 Ancient Wisdom | 20 |
Chapter 2 Ecology and Early Urban Civilization | 32 |
Chapter 3 The Origins of Environmental Danger | 43 |
Chapter 4 Theories of Breakdown | 51 |
Chapter 5 Putting the Earth First | 62 |
Chapter 6 Gaia | 74 |
Chapter 7 Philosophical Holism | 85 |
Chapter 12 Peaceful Protest | 140 |
Chapter 13 The City and the Country | 157 |
Chapter 14 Ecofeminism | 168 |
Chapter 15 Spiritual Awakenings | 181 |
Chapter 16 Literary Roots | 194 |
Chapter 17 Green Revolutionaries | 203 |
Chapter 18 Green Politics | 214 |
Chapter 19 Utopia or Else | 235 |
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