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Back to the garden : = nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Back to the garden :/ James H.S. McGregor.
Reminder of title:	nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /
Author:	McGregor, James H.
Published:	New Haven :Yale University Press, : c2015.,
Description:	xii, 366 p. :ill., maps ; : 24 cm.;
Subject:	Human ecology - History. - Mediterranean Region -
Subject:	Mediterranean Region - Commerce -
ISBN:	9780300197464 (cloth) :

Back to the garden : = nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /
McGregor, James H.1946-

Back to the garden :nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present /James H.S. McGregor. - New Haven :Yale University Press,c2015. - xii, 366 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"--

ISBN: 9780300197464 (cloth) :NT1247

LCCN: 2014022703Subjects--Topical Terms:

1053969
Human ecology
--History.--Mediterranean RegionSubjects--Geographical Terms:

803641
Mediterranean Region
--Commerce

LC Class. No.: GF13.3.M47 / M34 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 304.2/091822

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