Editors:
- Explores concepts of enough and sufficiency historically and culturally.
- Focuses on topics from medieval sufficiency to contemporary austerity that all cohere around their engagement with the concept of enough.
- Challenges contemporary debates on sustainability to think critically about concepts such as enough and sufficiency.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Thinking Enough
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Historicizing Sufficiency in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Limit Cases in Nineteenth-Century Modernity
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Enough for the Present
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About this book
By expanding the historical and cultural scope of sufficiency, this book fills a significant gap in the current market for authors, students and the wider informed audience who want to more deeply understandthe changing and developing use of this term.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Matthew Ingleby
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Department of Geography, University College London, London, UK
Samuel Randalls
About the editors
Samuel Randalls is a Lecturer in Human Geography at University College London and has previously co-edited a four-volume reader on Future Climate Change (Routledge, 2012) and the Handbook of the Political Economy of Science (Routledge, 2017). His research focuses on the historical, contemporary and future relationships between environments, businesses/economics and science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Just Enough
Book Subtitle: The History, Culture and Politics of Sufficiency
Editors: Matthew Ingleby, Samuel Randalls
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56210-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56209-8Published: 01 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56210-4Published: 19 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 137
Topics: Economics, general, Social History, Language and Literature, British and Irish Literature