{"product_id":"new-earth-histories-9780226828589","title":"New Earth Histories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 the 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 traditions. The methods the authors deploy are diversefrom cultural history and visual and material studies to ethn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNew Earth Histories\u003c\/i\u003e radically resituates the history of earth knowledge in space. Many of the essays center individuals, institutions, and traditions outside of Europe and North America. Just as importantly, other essays ask \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003ea specifically European space mattered for the formation of earth science. The volume also showcases an impressive array of approaches to what constitutes ‘earth sciences.’ Deploying methods from cultural history, visual and material studies, and ethnography, to name only a few examples, \u003ci\u003eNew Earth Histories\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how earth knowledge emerged from historically specific circulations and contestations.” -- Daniel Stolz, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003cbr\u003e“This book productively pushes the boundaries of how ‘earth knowledge’ might be conventionally understood, in part by centering other-than-Western forms of expertise but also by emphasizing the interconnectedness of geological and biological realms and knowledge, rather than treating these as separate areas of inquiry. The essays demonstrate in wide-ranging and empirically specific ways how historians and other humanities scholars might approach the intersections of human and geological temporalities.” -- Heidi V. Scott, University of Massachusetts Amherst\u003cbr\u003e“The centrality of the ‘Anthopocene’ in recent public discussion of our planetary future has given new prominence to the history of the Earth sciences as a whole. Although scientific understanding of the Earth and its own history—‘geology’ in its traditional sense—developed mainly in the West, its ambitions have always been worldwide. This volume offers an impressive set of historical studies of the amazingly diverse ways in which human beings have sought to understand their terrestrial environment.” -- Martin J. S. Rudwick, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003cbr\u003e Dipesh Chakrabarty\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: New Earth Histories\u003cbr\u003e Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, and Adam Bobbette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I New Earthly Cosmologies\u003cbr\u003e 1 Of Celestial Gods and Terrestrial Globes in Modern India\u003cbr\u003e Sumathi Ramaswamy\u003cbr\u003e 2 Living in an Eggshell: Cosmological Emplacement in Nguyễn Vietnam, 1802–1883\u003cbr\u003e Kathryn Dyt\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Mountain’s Many Faces: How Geologists Mistook Chomolungma for Everest\u003cbr\u003e Ruth Gamble\u003cbr\u003e 4 Think like a Fish: New Oceanic Histories\u003cbr\u003e Anne Salmond, Dan Hikuroa, and Natalie Robertson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II New Geo-Theologies\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Voices of an Eloquent Earth: Tracing the Many Directions of Colonial Geo-Theology\u003cbr\u003e Jarrod Hore\u003cbr\u003e 6 The Spiritual Geographies of Plate Tectonics: Javanese Islam, Volcanology, and Earth’s New History\u003cbr\u003e Adam Bobbette\u003cbr\u003e 7 Geo-Spiritualities of the Flood: Political Geologies of the Great Deluge on the Mountains of Anatolia\u003cbr\u003e Zeynep Oguz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III New Elemental Histories\u003cbr\u003e 8 “Glass Worke”: Precious Minerals and the Archives of Early Modern Earth Sciences\u003cbr\u003e Claire Conklin Sabel\u003cbr\u003e 9 “The Agent of the Most Dire of Calamities”: Ice, Waste, and Frozen Futures\u003cbr\u003e Alexis Rider\u003cbr\u003e 10 Hydropolitics for a New Nation: Hydrological Origins and Limits for the Australian Interior\u003cbr\u003e Ruth A. Morgan\u003cbr\u003e 11 Earth Time, Ice Time, Species Time: The Emergence of Glacial Chronology\u003cbr\u003e Emily M. Kern\u003cbr\u003e 12 Exchanging Fire: A Planetary History of the Explosion\u003cbr\u003e Nigel Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV New Geo-Temporalities\u003cbr\u003e 13 Holocene Time Perspective\u003cbr\u003e Perrin Selcer\u003cbr\u003e 14 “American Blitzkrieg” or “Ecological Indian”? Inequalities in Narrating Environmental Degradation through Deep Time\u003cbr\u003e Melissa Charenko\u003cbr\u003e 15 Imperial Melancholy and the Subversion of Ruins in the Amazon\u003cbr\u003e Raphael Uchôa\u003cbr\u003e 16 Gondwanaland Fictions: Modern Histories of an Ancient Continent\u003cbr\u003e Alison Bashford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, and Adam Bobbette\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400135909719,"sku":"9780226828589","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226828589.jpg?v=1730469846","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-earth-histories-9780226828589","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}