Book Review: Albritton-Jonsson on Robin, Sörlin & Warde, eds. The Future of Nature: Documents of Global Change.
Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, Paul Warde, eds. The Future of Nature:
Documents of Global Change. New Haven Yale University Press, 2013.
584 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-300-18461-7.
Reviewed by Fredrik Albritton-Jonsson (University of Chicago)
Published on H-HistGeog (August, 2014)
Commissioned by Robert J. Mayhew
Published on H-HistGeog (August, 2014)
Commissioned by Robert J. Mayhew
The Environment: Pasts and Futures
The Future of Nature blazes a new trail for the history of
environmental science and environmentalist ideology from the
Enlightenment to the Anthropocene. Rather than a conventional
textbook or survey, the book consists of thirty-nine primary sources
framed and interpreted by critical commentaries. These excerpts are
organized into ten different thematic groupings, from "Population"
and "Sustainability," to "Diversity," "Measuring," and "The
Anthropocene." The primary sources are for the most part texts drawn
from the natural sciences.
environmental science and environmentalist ideology from the
Enlightenment to the Anthropocene. Rather than a conventional
textbook or survey, the book consists of thirty-nine primary sources
framed and interpreted by critical commentaries. These excerpts are
organized into ten different thematic groupings, from "Population"
and "Sustainability," to "Diversity," "Measuring," and "The
Anthropocene." The primary sources are for the most part texts drawn
from the natural sciences.