Course Details
Country:
Australia
Institution:
Griffith University - Nathan campus
Course Title:
A History of Nature
Course Number:
2059LHS
Course Description:
This course charts the origins and history of ecological attitudes from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It focuses chiefly on changing ideas of nature in early modern Europe, but explores the global and colonial aspects of these new perceptions, ranging across a variety of historical and geographical contexts, including early America, British India and colonial Australia. Among other topics, the course examines the romanticisation of New World nature; the rise of picturesque landscape taste; the growth of 'nature' tourism; the recognition of animal rights; the interaction between European and non-European understandings of nature; and the birth of conservationist ideas and practices. At the same time, it also explores the complex relationship between ecological attitudes, processes and actions, showing how the emergence of new ideas of nature influenced, and were influenced by, environmental transformations, from climate change to deforestation.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HNRS 240
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