Inscriptions of Nature - Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity

Driven by the geological imagination of India as well as its landscape, people, past, and destiny, Inscriptions of Nature reveals how human evolution, myths, aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined Indian antiquity.

About the author

Pratik Chakrabarti is chair in the history of science and medicine and director of the Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Materials and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century and Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics.

Summary

Driven by the geological imagination of India as well as its landscape, people, past, and destiny, Inscriptions of Nature reveals how human evolution, myths, aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined Indian antiquity.

Product details

• Authors: Pratik Chakrabarti, Chakrabarti Pratik
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781421438740
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3874-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE / Natural History, History of Science, Ancient History, Asian History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Historical Geology, HISTORY / Asia / South / General