Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times (Themes in History). Coates**

Name: Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times (Themes in History). Coates**
Brand: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

NatureWestern Attitudes Since Ancient Times\nAuthor(s): Peter Coates\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745616568, 978-0745616568\nSynopsis\n'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both in terms of human attitudes and human impacts. Coates outlines the major understandings of 'nature' in the western world since classical times, from nature as higher authority to its more recent meaning of threatened physical space and life forms. Unlike many others, this book places the history of attitudes to nature within the story of human-induced changes in the material environment. And few others take a supranational perspective, or cross the divides between historical eras.\nA distinctive unifying theme is Coates's interest in how 'green' writers over the last thirty years have interpreted our past dealings with nature, specifically thei.