Nature and power : a global history of the environment / Joachim Radkau ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.

Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

xvii, 430 pages ; 24 cm.

1st English ed.

"First published in German as Natur und Macht by Joachim Radkau 2002"--T.p. verso.

Thinking about environmental history -- The ecology of subsistence and tacit knowledge: primeval symbioses of humans and nature -- Water, forests, and power -- Colonialism as a watershed in environmental history -- At the limits of nature -- In the labyrinth of globalization -- Epilogue: how to argue with environmental history in politics.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-407) and index.