After the Flood - Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe

How the story of Noah's Flood was central to the development of a global environmental consciousness in early modern Europe.

About the author

Lydia Barnett is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University.

Summary

Following Noah's Flood as a popular topic of debate through long-distance networks of knowledge from the late sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries, Barnett reveals how early modern earth and environmental sciences were shaped by gender, evangelism, empire, race, and nation.

Product details

• Authors: Lydia Barnett, Lydia (Northwestern University) Barnett
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781421445274
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4527-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)