Abstract:The assumption that sustainability is a modern invention appears frequently, in nuanced forms, across historical and literary investigations of ecological change, resource management, and waste in the early modern period. What remains under‐investigated is the period's ethical and theoretical understandings of these issues as debates, which deployed complex oppositional rhetorical strategies and literary forms that underpinned the organization of knowledge and pragmatic measures. Sir Hugh Platt's experimental … Show more
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