George Perkins Marsh, Prophet of ConservationUniversity of Washington Press, 2000 - 605 páginas George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was the first to reveal the menace of environmental misuse, to explain its causes, and to prescribe reforms. David Lowenthal here offers fresh insights, from new sources, into Marsh's career and shows his relevance today, in a book which has its roots in but wholly supersedes Lowenthal's earlier biography George Perkins Marsh: Versatile Vermonter (1958). Marsh's devotion to the repair of nature, to the concerns of working people, to women's rights, and to historical stewardship resonate more than ever. His Vermont birthplace is now a national park chronicling American conservation, and the crusade he launched is now global. Marsh's seminal book Man and Nature is famed for its ecological acumen. The clue to its inception lies in Marsh's many-sided engagement in the life of his time. The broadest scholar of his day, he was an acclaimed linguist, lawyer, congressman, and renowned diplomat who served 25 years as U.S. envoy to Turkey and to Italy. He helped found and guide the Smithsonian Institution, shaped the Washington Monument, penned potent tracts on fisheries and on irrigation, spearheaded public science, art, and architecture. He wrote on camels and corporate corruption, Icelandic grammar and Alpine glaciers. His pungent and provocative letters illuminate life on both sides of the Atlantic. Like Darwin's Origin of Species, Marsh's Man and Nature marked the inception of a truly modern way of looking at the world, of taking care lest we irreversibly degrade the fabric of humanized nature we are bound to manage. Marsh's ominous warnings inspired reforestation, watershed management, soil conservation, and nature protection in his day and ours. George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation was awarded the Association for American Geographers' 2000 J. B. Jackson Prize. The book was also on the shortlist for the first British Academy Book Prize, awarded in December 2001. "This erudite and richly detailed biography does full justice to a brilliant American thinker, the founder of the conservation movement. It brings Marsh's world wonderfully alive, from Vermont to the Italian Alps, and convincingly shows how provocative he still is today." - Donald Worster, University of Kansas David Lowenthal is professor emeritus of geography at University College London. His books include The Past Is a Foreign Country, West Indian Societies, and The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. |
Contenido
Woodstock and the First Watershed | 3 |
Burlington Blunders and Bereavements | 31 |
Puritans Vikings Goths | 48 |
Congress and the Smithsonian | 68 |
American History from the Ground Up | 89 |
Constantinople and the Desert | 109 |
Missionary Miseries Mediterranean Jaunts | 135 |
Debts and Dromedaries | 154 |
Risorgimento and Civil War | 220 |
Turin and the Alps | 242 |
Man and Nature The Making | 267 |
Man and Nature The Meaning | 290 |
Florence and Unfinished Italy | 313 |
Last Watersheds Rome Cravairola Vallombrosa | 336 |
Retrospect Forming a Life | 370 |
Prospect Reforming Nature | 404 |
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