Nature’s Diplomats. Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920–1960 , by Raf De Bont

• Autores: Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 37, Nº. Extra 3, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Rethinking Ancient Remains), págs. 753-755
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Most histories of international conservation focus on the post-1960s world, when the movement flourished as part of the growth of environmentalism as an autonomous political category. Raf De Bont moves this conventional start- ing date up, becoming able to provide the historical background of numerous later developments. Even if in the first half of the twentieth century the scale of the venture was comparatively small, the early efforts of the supporters of the internationalization of nature conservation generated the framework of ideas and concepts within which later developments could strive. De Bont offers thus a tale of continuities, that stresses how recent developments in international conservation actually took shape in the field’s deep past.