The Social Creation of Nature

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Baltimore: Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press (1992)
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The book traces the evolution of the concept of "nature" over the past five centuries. In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings, it also seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature, in order to defend what is actually imperiled - "wildness".

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