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001 2014022703
003 DLC
005 20150918083222.0
008 140820s2015 ctu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014022703
020 $a9780300197464 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
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050 00 $aGF13.3.M47$bM34 2015
082 00 $a304.2/091822$223
084 $aNAT010000$aHIS054000$aHIS052000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMcGregor, James H.$q(James Harvey),$d1946-
245 10 $aBack to the garden :$bnature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /$cJames H. S. McGregor.
264 1 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2015]
300 $axii, 366 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden underwrote the biblical book of Genesis and the region's three major religions. In this important melding of cultural and ecological histories, James H. S. McGregor suggests that the environmental crisis the world faces today is a result of Western society's abandonment of the "First Nature" principle--of the harmonious interrelationship of human communities and the natural world. The author demonstrates how this relationship, which persisted for millennia, effectively came to an end in the late eighteenth century, when "nature" came to be equated with untamed landscape devoid of human intervention. McGregor's essential work offers a new understanding of environmental accountability while proposing that recovering the original vision of ourselves, not as antagonists of nature but as cultivators of a biological world to which we innately belong, is possible through proven techniques of the past"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aHuman ecology$zMediterranean Region$xHistory.
650 0 $aAgriculture$zMediterranean Region$xHistory.
651 0 $aMediterranean Region$xHistory.
650 7 $aNATURE / Ecology.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Social History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Historical Geography.$2bisacsh