Genealogies of Environmentalism : The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken - Ravi S. Rajan

Genealogies of Environmentalism

The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken

By: Ravi S. Rajan (Editor), Adam Romero (Editor), Michael Watts (Editor)

Paperback | 28 July 2017

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Clarence Glacken wrote one of the most important books on environmental issues published in the twentieth century. His magnum opus, Traces on the Rhodian Shore, first published in 1967, details the ways in which perceptions of the natural environment have profoundly influenced human enterprise over the centuries while, conversely, permitting humans to radically alter the Earth. Although Glacken did not publish a comparable book before his death in 1989, he did write a follow-up collection of essays--lost works now compiled at last in Genealogies of Environmentalism.

This new volume comprises all of Glacken's unpublished writings to follow Traces and covers a broad temporal and geographic canvas, spanning the globe from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Each essay offers a brief intellectual biography of an important environmental thinker and addresses questions such as how many people the Earth can hold, what resources can sustain such populations, and where land for growth is located. This collection--carefully edited and annotated, and organized chronologically--will prove both a classic text and a springboard for further discussions on the history of environmental thought.

Industry Reviews
This compilation of Clarence Glacken's 'lost works' is an invaluable gift. It is a brilliant treatment of some of the most important environmental thinkers of the last two centuries, and Glacken provides new and fresh insights even into thinkers such as Darwin, about whom so much has been written. This important work holds appeal not only for geographers, historians, and ecologists but also for anyone interested in the environment, science, and intellectual history.-Diana K. Davis, University of California, Davis, author of The Arid Lands: History, Power, Knowledge.

"As we now fear climate change (and its deniers) and aggrandise ourselves as living in the Anthropocene, Glacken's quiet, sane voice asking us to intelligently investigate what nature is and how we've come to understand it is more needed than ever. We can only hope that the current tendency to political polarisation in attitudes to the environment does not leave Glacken as marginalised a voice as he was half a century ago." - Robert J. Mayhew, Times Higher Education

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