In Man and Nature, first published in 1864, polymath scholar and diplomat George Perkins Marsh challenged the general belief that human impact on nature was generally benign or negligible and charged that ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean had brought about their own collapse by their abuse of the environment. By deforesting their hillsides and eroding their soils, they had destroyed the natural fertility that sustained their well-being. Marsh offered his compatriots in the United States a stern warning that the young American republic might repeat these errors of the ancient world if it failed to end its own destructive waste of natural resources. Marsh’s ominous warnings inspired conservation and reform. In linking culture with nature, science with history, Man and Nature was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, published just five years earlier. In his Introduction to this new edition, David Lowenthal places Man and Nature in the context of recent scholarship and evaluates its significance for the environmental movement that has emerged since the latter part of the twentieth century. He also paints a vivid portrait of the book’s brilliant, passionate, wide-ranging, and sometimes choleric author. Although what we know and what we fear about the environment have vastly amplified since Marsh’s day, his appraisal of forest cover and erosion remains largely valid, his cautions about watershed control still cognent, and his call for stewardship ever more pertinent. Man and Nature is worth reading not only for having taught lessons crucial in its day, but for teaching them still so well.

Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics)

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Marsh, George Perkins

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The Earth As Modified By Human Action: A New Ed. Of Man And Nature

<div>An essential read for the next generation of environmentalists and climate scholars, this landmark text analyzes the impact of human action on nature by linking the environmental degradation of ancient Mediterranean civilization to the United States of the 1800s. As profoundly topical today as it was in 1864, this informative yet easy-to-read text is split into six chapters and may be easily used in a course syllabus.</div>

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As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

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Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics)

Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography As Modified by Human Action

The Earth As Modified By Human Action: A New Ed. Of Man And Nature

The Earth As Modified By Human Action: A New Ed. Of Man And Nature

Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Dover Thrift Editions: Nature/Environment)

Man And Nature: Or Physical Geography As Modified By Human Action (1864)

The Earth as Modified by Human Action

The Earth as Modified by Human Action

A Compendious Grammar of the Old-Northern Or Icelandic Language

A Compendious Grammar of the Old-Northern Or Icelandic Language: Compiled and Translated from the Gr