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.

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lydia Barnett, Lydia (Northwestern University) Barnett
• Edition: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781421445274
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4527-4
• Pages: 264
• Catégories: Littérature > Livres-cadeaux, albums, calendriers perpétuels, recueils de cartes postales; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, European History, Climate Change, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Europe / General, RELIGION / Religion & Science, The environment, History of Science, environmental science, engineering & technology, Science / Environmental Science, Religion & science