Reaching and Grasping: Some Reflections on Joachim Radkau's Nature and Power
Radkau’s ambitious volume illustrates both the opportunities and the risks offered by expansive chronological overviews. His environmental approach to global history confronts some of the challenges common to all such projects, such as the inevitable need for heavy selection. Environmental history a...
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| description | Radkau’s ambitious volume illustrates both the opportunities and the risks offered by expansive chronological overviews. His environmental approach to global history confronts some of the challenges common to all such projects, such as the inevitable need for heavy selection. Environmental history adds both special benefits and special costs that are derived from its connection to current politics and from its distinctive subject matter. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/830872022-10-01T06:14:11Z Reaching and Grasping: Some Reflections on Joachim Radkau's Nature and Power Ritvo, Harriet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section Ritvo, Harriet Ritvo, Harriet Radkau’s ambitious volume illustrates both the opportunities and the risks offered by expansive chronological overviews. His environmental approach to global history confronts some of the challenges common to all such projects, such as the inevitable need for heavy selection. Environmental history adds both special benefits and special costs that are derived from its connection to current politics and from its distinctive subject matter. 2013-12-19T20:36:24Z 2013-12-19T20:36:24Z 2013-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0145-5532 1527-8034 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83087 Ritvo, H. “Reaching and Grasping: Some Reflections on Joachim Radkau's Nature and Power.” Social Science History 37, no. 3 (August 12, 2013): 361-371. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-3571 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01455532-2209420 Social Science History Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Duke University Press Ritvo via Michelle Baildon |
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