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1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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monochrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-240) and index. |
| Summary |
"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 the early modern period, when the Scientific Revolution, the Reformations, the Little Ice Age, and the overseas expansion of European empire, religion, and commerce gave rise to new ideas about nature and humanity, and their intersecting histories. Recovering a forgotten episode in the history of environmental thought, Barnett brings to light the crucial role of religious faith and conflict in fostering new ways of thinking about the capacity of humans and nature to change each other on a planetary scale. In the hands of Protestant and Catholic writers from across Europe and its American colonies, the biblical story of Noah's Flood became a vehicle for imagining the power of sin to wreck the world, the dangers of overpopulation, the transformative effects of shifting landforms on the course of human history, and the impact of a changing climate on human bodies, health, and lives. 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. After the Flood illuminates the hidden role and complicated legacy of religion in the emergence of a global environmental consciousness."--Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
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Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Sin -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
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Sin -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. |
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Deluge -- History of doctrines.
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Deluge -- History of doctrines. |
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Deluge. |
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Barnett, Lydia, 1981- After the flood. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 9781421429519 (DLC) 2018041200 (OCoLC)1057733126 |
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Print version: BARNETT, LYDIA. AFTER THE FLOOD. [Place of publication not identified], JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV Press, 2019 1421429519 (OCoLC)1057762936 |
| ISBN |
9781421429526 (electronic book) |
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1421429527 (electronic book) |
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9781421429519 (hardcover) |
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1421429519 (hardcover) |
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