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Nature's evil : a cultural history of natural resources /

"Retelling the story of humankind through our relationship to the natural resources"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ėtkind, Aleksandr, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Jolly, Sara (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the Russian.
Published: Medford : Polity Press, [2021]
Series:New Russian thought.
Subjects:
Natural resources > History.
Natural resources > Government policy > History.
Economic history.
Philosophy of nature.
Natural resources > Moral and ethical aspects.
Global warming > Philosophy.
Ressources naturelles > Histoire.
Ressources naturelles > Politique gouvernementale > Histoire.
Histoire économique.
Philosophie de la nature.
Ressources naturelles > Aspect moral.
Réchauffement de la Terre > Philosophie.
Natural resources.
Natural resources > Government policy.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1 History of Matter
  • 1. Cry Fire
  • 2. Grain's Way
  • 3. The Remains of Foreign Bodies
  • 4. Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice
  • 5. Fibres
  • 6. Metals
  • pt. 2 History of Ideas
  • 7. Resources and Commodities
  • 8. Resource Projects
  • 9. Labour and the Mercantile Pump
  • 10. The Resources that Failed
  • pt. 5 History of Energy
  • 11. Peat
  • 12. Coal
  • 13. Oil.