Penury Into Plenty: Dearth And The Making Of Knowledge In Early Modern England (Routledge Research In Early Modern History)

Penury into Plenty demonstrates that the investigation of past ecological consciousness and environmental change is vital for understanding contemporary concerns. By drawing upon environmental, economic, scientific and literary history and theory, this book examines the socio-economic and ecological crises in England in the 1590s. Ayesha Mukherjee particularly examines the activities and theories of prolific "dearth scientist", Sir Hugh Platt, whose holistic approach explains not only what dearth or famine meant in the period, but how contemporaries understood sustainable resource management and allows modern readers to see that sustainability is not a wholly modern concept. 9781138811164 1138811165 0 HISTORY NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=TrT8oAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Ayesha Mukherjee
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Dec 17, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 286 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1138811165
• • ISBN-13: 9781138811164