Approaches to Environmental History
•Humans and Animals
•Inter-relationships in the Natural Worlds
•Transformation of Nature by Human Agency
•Emotional & Aesthetic Reactions to Nature
Great Chain of Being
Natural history: Buffon, Linnaeaus, Rousseau
Evolutionary theory—Darwin’s web of life
Foreseen and unforeseen consequences
Landscape painting—John Constable
Poetry—William Wordsworth
Prose—Mary Shelley, Dorothy Wordsworth
Historical Agency of Nature