New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World Bashford Alison
A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific,…
Specifikacia New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World Bashford Alison
A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of earth's origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed modern environmental sciences? How have different world traditions understood human and geological origins? How does the inclusion of multiple cosmologies change the meaning of the Anthropocene and the global climate crisis? By carefully examining these questions, New Earth Histories sets an ambitious agenda for how we think about the earth.The chapters consider debates about the age and structure of the earth, how humans and earth systems interact, and how empire has been conceived in multiple