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After the Flood : Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe /

"Many centuries before the emergence of the scientific consensus on climate change, people began to imagine the existence of a global environment: a natural system capable of changing humans and of being changed by them. In After the Flood, Lydia Barnett traces the history of this idea back to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barnett, Lydia, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A natural history of sin
  • Before the flood: gender, embodied sin, and environmental agency
  • After the flood: biblical monogenism, global migrations, and the origins of scientific racism
  • Protestant climate change: from Edenocene to Fallocene
  • The flood and the Apocalypse: building the republic of letters
  • Catholic climate change: heritable sin and strategies of toleration
  • The flood subsides.