Book ID: CBB000302055

Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture (2003)

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Merchant, Carolyn (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xi + 308 pp., illus, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Explores how, over the last 400 years, the story of the Garden of Eden motivated attempts to reconstruct it by mastering Nature.


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Authors & Contributors
Paul Tyson
Tom Lynch
Burrus, Virginia
David Bentley Hart
Abigail Agresta
Santoro, Lily A.
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Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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Christianity
Science and religion
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
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Technology and religion
Environmentalism
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19th century
Medieval
Ancient
21st century
20th century
Neolithic period
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