{"product_id":"the-usufructuary-ethos-power-politics-and-environment-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-paperback-softback-9780813945804","title":"The Usufructuary Ethos; Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813945804","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Usufructuary Ethos\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePower, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErin Drew (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813945804\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 May 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e234 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.1 x 1.3 cm, 0.33 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWho has the right to decide how nature is used, and in what ways? Recovering an overlooked thread of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century environmental thought, Erin Drew shows that English writers of the period commonly believed that human beings had only the \"usufruct\" of the earth the \"right of temporary possession, use, or enjoyment of the advantages of property belonging to another, so far as may be had without causing damage or prejudice.\" The belief that human beings had only temporary and accountable possession of the world, which Drew labels the \"\"usufructuary ethos,\"\" had profound ethical implications for the ways in which the English conceived of the ethics of power and use. Drew's book traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial commerce, attending to the particular political, economic, and environmental pressures that shaped, transformed, and ultimately sidelined it. Although a study of past ideas, \u003cem\u003eThe Usufructuary Ethos\u003c\/em\u003e resonates with contemporary debates about our human responsibilities to the natural world in the face of climate change and mass extinction.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52653368443160,"sku":"9780813945804","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-usufructuary-ethos-power-politics-and-environment-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-paperback-softback-9780813945804","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}