Author: Carolyn Merchant
Publisher: HarperOne
Keywords: scientific, revolution, ecology, women, nature, death
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1990-01-10
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0062505955
ISBN-13: 9780062505958

An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.

Author: Carolyn Merchant
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: western, culture, nature, fate, eden, reinventing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-07-28
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415931657
ISBN-13: 9780415931656

Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western culture from Columbus’ voyages to today’s tropical island retreats. Few narratives are so powerful - and, as Carolyn Merchant shows, so misguided and destructive - as the dream of recapturing a lost paradise. A sweeping account of these quixotic endeavors by one of America’s leading environmentalists, Reinventing Eden traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations in shopping malls, theme parks and gated communities. With eloquence and insight, Merchant shows ho

Author: Carolyn Merchant
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: radical, thought, movements, revolutionary, livable, ecology, search, world
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-06-23
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415935784
ISBN-13: 9780415935784

This is a new edition of the classic examination of major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems which examines the ways that radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life on this planet. It features a new Introduction from the author, a thorough updating of chapters, and two entirely new chapters on recent Global Movements and Globalization and the Environment.

Author: Carolyn Merchant
Publisher: Humanity Books
Keywords: second, ecology
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $25.98
ISBN-10: 1591025788
ISBN-13: 9781591025788

As we survey the negative effects of modernism--environmental destruction, the net consumption of irreplaceable natural resources, the ever-widening gulf between first and third worlds--we are forced to grapple with the consequences of the domination of nature by human beings. Clearly, for the earth and its peoples to survive, new ways of thinking about the human relationship to nature are needed.The readings gathered in this popular reader join these issues with critical theory to examine the ongoing struggle to rediscover the nature within human beings and to reconnect it with

Author: Carolyn Merchant
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: radical, thought, movements, revolutionary, livable, ecology, search, world
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1992-08-14
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0415906504
ISBN-13: 9780415906500

Examines the major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems and identifies ways in which radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life.

Author: Carolyn Merchant
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: environmental, history, california, sources, gold, versus
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1559635800
ISBN-13: 9781559635806

While the state of California remains one of the most striking and varied landscapes in the world, it has experienced monumental changes since European settlers first set foot there. The past two centuries have witnessed an ongoing struggle between environment and economy, nature and humanity that has left an indelible mark on the region.Green Versus Gold provides a compelling look at California’s environmental history from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades. Acclaimed environmental historian Carolyn Merchant has brought together a vast storehouse of pr

Author: Paul Merchant
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: idiom, critical, epic
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1971-06
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0416197000
ISBN-13: 9780416197006