Reaching and Grasping: Some Reflections on Joachim Radkau's Nature and Power
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Author(s)
Ritvo, Harriet
Date Issued
August 2013
Journal
Social Science History
Publisher
Duke University Press
Citation
Ritvo, H. “Reaching and Grasping: Some Reflections on Joachim Radkau's Nature and Power.” Social Science History 37, no. 3 (August 12, 2013): 361-371.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
Radkau’s ambitious volume illustrates both the opportunities and the risks offered by expansive chronological overviews. His environmental approach to global history confronts some of the challenges common to all such projects, such as the inevitable need for heavy selection. Environmental history adds both special benefits and special costs that are derived from its connection to current politics and from its distinctive subject matter.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section
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https://doi.org/10.1215/01455532-2209420
