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New earth histories : geo-cosmologies and the making of the modern world
Title
New earth histories : geo-cosmologies and the making of the modern world / edited by Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, and Adam Bobbette.
ISBN
022682859X
9780226828596
9780226828589
0226828581
9780226828602
0226828603
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xvii, 373 pages)
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
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Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook 2023.
Other formats
Print version: Bashford, Alison New Earth Histories Chicago : University of Chicago Press,c2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 04, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Dipesh Chakrabarty
Introduction : new earth histories / Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, Adam Bobbette
Part I. New earthly cosmologies. Of celestial gods and terrestrial globes in modern India / Sumathi Ramaswamy
Living in an eggshell : cosmological emplacement in Nguyen Vietnam, 1802-1833 / Kathryn Dyt
The mountain's many faces : how geologists mistook Chomolungma for Everest / Ruth Gamble
Think like a fish : new Oceanic histories / Anne Salmond, Dan Hikuroa, and Natalie Robertson
Part II. New Geo-theologies. The voices of an eloquent earth : tracing the many directions of colonial geo-theology / Jarrod Hore
The spiritual geographies of plate tectonics : Javanese Islam, volcanology, and Earth's new history / Adam Bobbette
Geo-spiritualities of the flood : political geologies of the Great Deluge on the mountains of Anatolia / Zeynep Oguz
Part III. New elemental histories. "Glass worke" : precious minerals and the archives of early modern earth sciences / Claire Conklin Sabel
"The agent of the most dire of calamities" : ice, waste, and frozen futures / Alexis Rider
Hydropolitics for a new nation : hydrological origins and limits for the Australian interior / Ruth A. Morgan
Earth time, ice time, species time : the emergence of glacial chronology / Emily M. Kern
Exchanging fire : a planetary history of the explosion / Nigel Clark
Part IV. New geo-temporalities. Holocene time perspective / Perrin Selcer
"American Blitzkrieg" or ecological Indian?" : inequalities in narrating environmental degradation through deep time / Melissa Charenko
Imperial melancholy and the subversion of ruins in the Amazon / Rapael Uchôa
Gondwanaland fictions : modern histories / Alison Bashford
Afterword / Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, Adam Bobbette.
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