Green History

Green History traces the origins of the ecological writing through history and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements. Animal rights, ecology as science, feminism, fascism/socialism/anarchism, land reform, peaceful protest, industrialization, ancient ecology, evolution, grassroots activism, philosophical holism, recycling, Taoism, demographics, utopias, sustainability, spiritualism ... all these issues and many more are discussed. Authors include Alice Walker, Aldous Huxley, Lewis Mumford, Engels, Thoreau, the Shelleys, Bacon, Hildegard of Bingen and Plato. Each article is set within its historical and thematic context. An introduction and a guide to further reading are also provided.Wall, Derek is the author of 'Green History' with ISBN 9780415079242 and ISBN 0415079241.