Jeremy L Caradonna: 2 books
Sustainability
A History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as...
The Enlightenment in Practice
Academic Prize Contests and Intellectual Culture in France, 1670–1794
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Public academic prize contests—the concours académique—played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulating positions on such matters as slavery, poverty, the education of women, tax reform, and urban renewal and submitting the resulting essays...