Since 1492, when Columbus "discovered" America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and consequently greater resource demands, and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere. These developments play a major part in both modern history and in daily life. Understanding their interrelationships and development...(展开全部)

Since 1492, when Columbus "discovered" America, the world has been moving toward an increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and consequently greater resource demands, and an increasingly precarious state of the biosphere. These developments play a major part in both modern history and in daily life. Understanding their interrelationships and development...(展开全部)

On the History of Modern Philosophy is a key transitional text in the history of European philosophy. In it, F. W. J. Schelling surveys philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure. The lectures trace the path of philosophy from Descartes through Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Jacobi, to Hegel and Schelling's o...(展开全部)

Translator's Preface Acknowledgements Translator's Introduction 1 Reassessing Schelling 1 Mind and Nature 3 Identity and Difference 13 Schelling and Hegel 23 References 35 [Introduction] 41 Descartes 42 Comparison of Bacon and Descartes 61 Spinoza, Leibniz, and Wolff 64 Spinoza 64 Leibniz 75 Wolff 84 Kant, Fichte, and the System of Transcendental Idealism 94 Kant 94 Fichte 106 ...(展开全部)

It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history, "The Unending Frontier" offers a truly global perspective on the profound i...(展开全部)

To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbolt's journall--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship. An instant maritime classic, and one of Goldi...(展开全部)

- Follows the evolution of environmental history from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies. - Authors both review past developments in environmental history and project future trends. - Original articles by 27 authors. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches ...(展开全部)

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-...(展开全部)

- Follows the evolution of environmental history from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies. - Authors both review past developments in environmental history and project future trends. - Original articles by 27 authors. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches ...(展开全部)

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-...(展开全部)