"First published in German as Natur und Macht by Joachim Radkau 2002"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-407) and index.
Thinking about environmental history -- The ecology of subsistence and tacit knowledge: primeval symbioses of humans and nature -- Water, forests, and power -- Colonialism as a watershed in environmental history -- At the limits of nature -- In the labyrinth of globalization -- Epilogue: how to argue with environmental history in politics