| Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England Contributor(s): Steinberg, Theodore (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870239430 ISBN-13: 9780870239434 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1994 Annotation: "A major contribution not only to environmental history, but to the history of industrialization itself". -- Journal of Social History |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - Water Supply - Business & Economics | Industries - General |
| Dewey: 333.912 |
| LCCN: 94015035 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.99" W x 8.96" (1.04 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A great deal of arrogance surrounds this late-twentieth-century attitude toward the environment, and a great deal of history as well. What started as a research paper at Brandeis University expanded into a book that explores the role of the Industrial Revolution in this aggressive stance toward the natural world. The transformation of nature is at least as old as our presence as a species on this planet. But the advent of the industrial age marked a shift in humankind's relations with the earth. Steinberg concerns himself mainly with describing this shift as it was felt in New England, to journey back to a time when the task of subduing nature was full of hard-fought battles and much less arrogance. |