Man and the Natural World
How the English learned to love wild nature and animals between 1500 and 1800.
Keith Thomas, a historian of early modern England, traces how English attitudes to animals, plants and the countryside changed between 1500 and 1800. People moved from seeing nature as something to be conquered for human use to valuing wild country, pets and the lives of animals. It is a classic of social and intellectual history.
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Carolyn Steel
Having read a huge number of books for my research, I find that some books just stand out as just being beautifully researched, or so scholarly that they are revelatory. Man and the Natural World is one of those books. It’s written in that level voice of someone who really knows what they are talking about.
Interview · April 2010
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