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发表于2024-11-07
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The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the lands of the New World, proved tragic for some, triumphant for others, and powerfully affecting for all.
In this work, acclaimed environmental historian Donald Worster takes a global view in his examination of the ways in which complex issues of worldwide abundance and scarcity have shaped American society and behavior over three centuries. Looking at the limits nature imposes on human ambitions, he questions whether America today is in the midst of a shift from a culture of abundance to a culture of limits-and whether American consumption has become reliant on the global South. Worster engages with key political, economic, and environmental thinkers while presenting his own interpretation of the role of capitalism and government in issues of wealth, abundance, and scarcity. Acknowledging the earth's agency throughout human history, Shrinking the Earth offers a compelling explanation of how we have arrived where we are and a hopeful way forward on a planet that is no longer as large as it once was.
Donald Worster is Honorary Director of the Center for Ecological History at the University of Remnin of China and Hall Distinguished Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Kansas and. He is the author of many books, including A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (OUP, 2008); Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930's (OUP, 2004); A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell (OUP, 2000); The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (OUP, 1993); and Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West (OUP, 1993).
如何面对突如其来而又逐渐消退的重大发展机遇。序言中运用《了不起的盖茨比》中的“绿光理论”概括自己探讨的问题。那段话确实有一点环境史的韵味。“当明月上升的时候,那些微不足道的房屋慢慢消逝,直到我逐渐意识到当年为荷兰水手的眼睛放出异彩的这个古岛——新世界的一片清新碧绿的地方。它那些消失了的树木,那些为盖茨比的别墅让路而被砍伐的树木,曾经一度迎风飘拂,低声响应人类最后的也是最伟大的梦想,在那昙花一现的神妙的瞬间,人面对这个新大陆一定屏息惊异,不由自主地堕入他既不理解也不企求的一种美学的观赏中,在历史上最后一次面对着和他感到惊奇的能力相称的奇观。”
评分如何面对突如其来而又逐渐消退的重大发展机遇。序言中运用《了不起的盖茨比》中的“绿光理论”概括自己探讨的问题。那段话确实有一点环境史的韵味。“当明月上升的时候,那些微不足道的房屋慢慢消逝,直到我逐渐意识到当年为荷兰水手的眼睛放出异彩的这个古岛——新世界的一片清新碧绿的地方。它那些消失了的树木,那些为盖茨比的别墅让路而被砍伐的树木,曾经一度迎风飘拂,低声响应人类最后的也是最伟大的梦想,在那昙花一现的神妙的瞬间,人面对这个新大陆一定屏息惊异,不由自主地堕入他既不理解也不企求的一种美学的观赏中,在历史上最后一次面对着和他感到惊奇的能力相称的奇观。”
评分正在二刷。把文学和历史结合到这种程度的,非Worster老先生莫属——他老人家讲课也有些文艺老青年的感觉。
评分正在二刷。把文学和历史结合到这种程度的,非Worster老先生莫属——他老人家讲课也有些文艺老青年的感觉。
评分正在二刷。把文学和历史结合到这种程度的,非Worster老先生莫属——他老人家讲课也有些文艺老青年的感觉。
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Shrinking the Earth pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024