Thorstein Veblen's contribution to environmental sociology : essays in the political ecology of wasteful industrialism

Foreword by Professor Stephen Edgell Acknowledgments Chapter One - Introduction: Political Ecology and Thorstein Veblen - Ross E. Mitchell Chapter Two - Animism and the Roots of a Veblenian Political Ecology - Sidney Plotkin Chapter Three - Thorstein Veblen and the Natural World - P. A. Saram Chapter Four - Thorstein Veblen: Pioneer in Environmental Sociology - Ross E. Mitchell Chapter Five - Veblen, Innis, and the Classic Tradition: A North American Economic Sociology - Ross E. Mitchell Chapter Six - The Nobleness of Labor and the Instinct of Workmanship: Nature, Work, Gender, and Politics in Harriet Martineau and Thorstein Veblen - Susan Hoecker-Drysdale Chapter Seven - Polemics against Patriarchy: Thorstein Veblen on Gender, Nature, and the Making of Modern Capitalist Culture - Molly Talcott Chapter Eight - The Spaces of Individualization and Capitalism: Space and Nature Reflections in Simmel and Veblen - Matthias Gross and Ross E. Mitchell Chapter Nine - A Tale of Two Parks: Photography, Pollution, and the "Pecuniary Canons of Taste" - Keri Cronin Chapter Ten - Absentee Ownership and Resource-dependent Communities: Veblen and Beyond - Ross E. Mitchell Chapter Eleven - Implications for Political Ecology in Veblen - Solidelle Wasser.