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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... crisis of a debased nature that calls for a new synthesis of these narratives to conserve nature as we know it today.”—Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont Graduate University Reinventing Eden The Fate of Nature in Western Culture Second.
... crisis of a debased nature that calls for a new synthesis of these narratives to conserve nature as we know it today.”—Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont Graduate University Reinventing Eden The Fate of Nature in Western Culture Second.
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... conservation movement attempted to redeem both nature and humanity by saving places of pristine beauty. Yet the new parks, the modern suburbs, and the garden cities reclaimed nature at a cost. These Edenic spaces ostracized those ...
... conservation movement attempted to redeem both nature and humanity by saving places of pristine beauty. Yet the new parks, the modern suburbs, and the garden cities reclaimed nature at a cost. These Edenic spaces ostracized those ...
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... conserve nature and its resources helped to spawn the field of environmental history. In the 1970s and 19805, an array of books documented the loss of wilderness, the erosion of soils, increased urban pollution, and the decline of ...
... conserve nature and its resources helped to spawn the field of environmental history. In the 1970s and 19805, an array of books documented the loss of wilderness, the erosion of soils, increased urban pollution, and the decline of ...
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... conservation movement, and the latetwentieth-century narratives of environmental crisis. The effects of development on nature, women, and minorities are part of a larger counterstory of the loss of an evolved, earthly abundance and ...
... conservation movement, and the latetwentieth-century narratives of environmental crisis. The effects of development on nature, women, and minorities are part of a larger counterstory of the loss of an evolved, earthly abundance and ...
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... conservation and preservation movements of the nineteenth century and continues with the environmental movement of the late twentieth century. Feminist narratives Many feminists likewise see history as a downward spiral from a utopian ...
... conservation and preservation movements of the nineteenth century and continues with the environmental movement of the late twentieth century. Feminist narratives Many feminists likewise see history as a downward spiral from a utopian ...
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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