| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-06-13 |
| Size | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
I was disposed to like this book, whose subject matter is important and fresh, and it gives me no pleasure to conclude that, from beginning to end, the text swings between the peculiar, the questionable, and the unacceptable. Nor should its intent to instruct a general audience excuse it from serious scrutiny. . . . [The authors] undermine their argument with a narrative that wanders between the digressive and the irrelevant. . . . Zupko and Laures seem to have no clear vision of their subject. They trace 'environmental awareness' and 'environmental theory' back to classical and early Hebrew times, citing texts that show only that people have made wildly diverse comments about the earth and the human place on it. . . . Even more dubious is the authors' conclusion that medieval Italian 'environmental legislative initiatives . . . have become the cornerstone of the modern environmental movement'.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Grubb
The authors' text is 'intended for the use of undergraduates, graduates and the general public'. It is ambitious and wide-ranging, including substantial sections on the world and ranging down to the Bergamo statutes of 1727. The authors introduce interest topics. . . . In 150 pages there is little opportunity to develop ideas. Assertions such as 'recent scholarship has shown' offer no authority, and this reader would question 'recent', for the main bibliography is virtually all from more than a decade ago. No unpublished archival source is cited. . . . Certainly an easy read, this book has a number of failings of detail and execution, but if it encourages its target readership to take up detailed studies of environmental issues in northern Italian towns in the middle ages, it will have done its work.
Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company.
Grubb
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