@article{311336,
      note = {"Man and nature ... was originally published in 1864. The  edition edited by David Lowenthal was published by Harvard  University Press in 1965 and is reprinted here"--T.p.  verso.},
      author = {Marsh, George P. and Lowenthal, David.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/311336},
      title = {Man and nature /},
      publisher = {University of Washington Press,},
      abstract = {In Man and nature George Perkins Marsh challenged the  general belief that human impact on nature was generally  benign or negligible and charged that ancient civilizations  of the Mediterranean had brought about their own collapse  by their abuse of the environment. By deforesting their  hillsides and eroding their soils, they had destroyed the  natural fertility that sustained their well-being. Marsh  offered his compatriots in the United States a stern  warning that the young American republic might repeat these  errors of the ancient world if it failed to end its own  destructive waste of natural resources. Marsh's ominous  warnings inspired conservation and reform. In linking  culture with nature, science with history, Man and nature  was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin's  On the Origin of Species, published just five years  earlier. Although what we know and what we fear about the  environment have vastly amplified since Marsh's day, his  appraisal of forest cover and erosion remains largely  valid, his cautions about watershed control still cognent,  and his call for stewardship ever more pertinent.},
      recid = {311336},
      pages = {xxxviii, 472 p. ;},
      address = {Seattle :},
      year = {2003},
}