Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western CultureThis revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth. |
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... American culture . . . an amply researched, well written, closely reasoned study that belongs on the shelf of every Americanist.”—Paul W. Rea, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment “ [A] very useful introduction to ...
... American culture . . . an amply researched, well written, closely reasoned study that belongs on the shelf of every Americanist.”—Paul W. Rea, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment “ [A] very useful introduction to ...
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... American culture. Reinventing Eden will provide nuggets of knowledge to students of the conception of nature in human history and a wonderful explication of a cooperative approach to environmental ethics.”—Brian Black, American Studies ...
... American culture. Reinventing Eden will provide nuggets of knowledge to students of the conception of nature in human history and a wonderful explication of a cooperative approach to environmental ethics.”—Brian Black, American Studies ...
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... America, in Nova Reperta (1579) 6.2 Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbus Terrarum (1579) 6.3 Iohn Gast, American Progress (1872) 6.4 Emanuel LeutZe, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (1861) 6.5 Domenico Tojetti, The Progress ...
... America, in Nova Reperta (1579) 6.2 Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbus Terrarum (1579) 6.3 Iohn Gast, American Progress (1872) 6.4 Emanuel LeutZe, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way (1861) 6.5 Domenico Tojetti, The Progress ...
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... America and my explorations of the connections between gender and the environment. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many ... American Society for Environmental History in 1987, and the idea became very influential in the field of ...
... America and my explorations of the connections between gender and the environment. It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many ... American Society for Environmental History in 1987, and the idea became very influential in the field of ...
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... American Eden.1 The Garden of Eden story has shaped Western culture since earliest times and the American world since the 1600s. We have tried to reclaim the lost Eden by reinventing the entire earth as a garden. The shopping mall, the ...
... American Eden.1 The Garden of Eden story has shaped Western culture since earliest times and the American world since the 1600s. We have tried to reclaim the lost Eden by reinventing the entire earth as a garden. The shopping mall, the ...
Contents
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Part II New World Edens | 79 |
Part III New Stories | 159 |
Epilogue | 209 |
Afterword | 211 |
Notes | 217 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 271 |
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