Man And the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800 - Softcover

THOMAS K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140073442 ISBN 13: 9780140073447

Publisher: Penguin, 1984

Synopsis

RO60107841. MAN AND THE NATURAL WORLD, CHANGING ATTITUDES IN ENGLAND, 1500-1800. 1984. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 425 pages. Reproduction en noir et blanc en page de titre. Illustré de nombreuses reproductions en noir et blanc dans le texte. Dos insolé.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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"This book has two great charms. One is the almost incredible wealth of supporting detail....The other charm is closely related. Mr. Thomas has a gift for apt quotation. One hears a thousand or more voices in his book."--The New York Times Book Review
"This book has two great charms. One is the almost incredible wealth of supporting detail....The other charm is closely related. Mr. Thomas has a gift for apt quotation. One hears a thousand or more voices in his book."--The New York Times Book Review
"This book has two great charms. One is the almost incredible wealth of supporting detail....The other charm is closely related. Mr. Thomas has a gift for apt quotation. One hears a thousand or more voices in his book."--The New York Times Book Review

From the Back Cover:

Preserving the environment, saving the rain forests, and preventing the extinction of species may seem like fairly recent concerns, but in Man and the Natural World, Sir Keith Thomas explores how these ideas took root long ago. In this entertaining and illuminating history, Thomas aims not just to explain present interest in preserving the environment and protecting the rights of animals, but to reconstruct an earlier mental world as well. Throughout the ages humankind has attempted to rationalize its place in nature. At no time was the idea of exploiting the earth for our own advantage so sharply challenged as in England between the sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries. For it was during these years that there occurred a whole cluster of changes in the way in which men and women, at all social levels, perceived the natural world around them. Thomas seeks to expose the assumptions which underlay the views and feelings of the inhabitants of early modern England toward the animals, birds, vegetation, and physical landscape among which they spent their lives. The issues raised here are even more alive today than they were just ten years ago. This fascinating work deftly shows that it is impossible to disentangle what the people of the past thought about plants and animals from what they thought about themselves.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0140073442
• ISBN 13: 9780140073447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432