Nature and society in historical context / edited by Mikuláš Teich, Robinson College, Cambridge, Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and Bo Gustafsson, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (SCASSS), Uppsala.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

xv, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Outgrowth of a round-table discussion held Mar. 1, 1991, at Robinson College and a symposium held Sept. 8-11, 1993 in Uppsala, Sweden.

Copy 1. Signed by Roy Porter on front endpaper : "Love from Roy".

Knowledge of nature and society / Ernest Gellner -- Two conceptions of the world in Greek and Roman thought: cyclicity and degeneration / Jan Janko -- Byzantine fools: the link between nature and society / Lenos Mavrommatis -- The 'chaotic spaces' of medieval madness: thoughts on the English and Welsh experience / Chris Philo -- On the perception of nature in a Renaissance society / Gerhard Jaritz, Verena Winiwarter -- Fables of the bees: a case-study on views of nature and society / Peter Burke -- The earth's fertility as a social fact in Early Modern England / Simon Schaffer -- The island and the history of environmentalism: the case of St. Vincent / Richard Grove -- Art and nature in pre-classical economics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Lars Herlitz -- The urban and the rustic in Enlightenment London / Roy Porter -- Science, society and culture in the Romantic Naturforschung around 1800 / Dietrich von Engelhardt -- The anti-Romantic Romantics: nature, knowledge and identity in nineteenth-century Norway / Nina Witoszek -- The wordy worship of nature and the tacit feeling for nature in the history of German forestry / Joachim Radkau -- 'Let us begin with the weather': climate, race and cultural distinctiveness in the American South -- Mart A. Stewart -- Wild West imagery: landscape perception in nineteenth-century America / Gerhard Strohmeier -- On human nature: Darwin and the anthropologists / Adam Kuper -- The siren of evolutionary ethics: Darwin to Wilson / Paul Lawrence Farber -- Mapping the human genome in the light of history / Mikuláš Teich -- The way the world is going: the society-nature dichotomy in development rhetoric / Bengt-Erik Borgström -- Nature and economy / Bo Gustafsson -- The nature of morality and the morality of nature: problems of normative natural philosophy / Kurt Bayertz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.