Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
PART ONE: THE ANCIENT WORLD
1. Order and Purpose in the Cosmos and on the Earth
2. Airs, Waters, Places
3. Creating a Second Nature
4. God, Man, and Nature in Judeo-Christian Theology
PART TWO: THE CHRISTIAN MIDDLE AGES
5. The Earth as a Planned Abode for Man
6. Environmental Influences within a Divinely Created World
7. Interpreting Piety and Activity, and their Effects on Nature
PART THREE: EARLY MODERN TIMES
8. Physico-Theology: Deeper Understandings of the Earth as a Habitable Planet
9. Environmental Theories of Early Modern Times
10. Growing Consciousness of the Control of Nature
PART FOUR: CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
11. Final Strengths and Weaknesses of Physico-Theology
12. Climate, the Moeurs, Religion, and Government
13. Environment, Population, and the Perfectibility of Man
14. The Epoch of Man in the History of Nature
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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