Dana Luciano (Author)
In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geological writings, Indigenous and settler accounts of earthquakes, African American antislavery literature, and other works, Luciano reveals how geology catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world. She shows that understanding the earth’s history geologically involved confronting the dynamic nature of inorganic matter over vast spans of time, challenging preconceived notions of human agency. Nineteenth-century Americans came to terms with these changes through a fusion of fact and imagination that Luciano calls geological fantasy. Geological fantasy transformed the science into a sensory experience, sponsoring affective and even erotic connections to the matter of the earth. At the same time, it was often used to justify accounts of evolution that posited a modern, civilized, and Anglo-American whiteness as the pinnacle of human development. By tracing geology’s relationship with biopower, Luciano illuminates how imagined connections with the earth shaped American dynamics of power, race, and colonization.
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Natures, Contexts, and Natural History
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(2011)
The Science of God's Creation: Popular Science and Christianity in the Early Republic
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The Birth of the Anthropocene
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The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities
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Antebellum Black Climate Science: The Medical Geography and Emancipatory Politics of James McCune Smith and Martin Delany
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Stories from the Elders: Chronicles and Narratives of the Early Years of Wilderness Therapy
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Entre espace public et mondes privés: Les masculinités savantes aux origines de la discipline historique en France, 1870–1914
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Fabian Link;
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The Idea of Volk and the Origins of Völkisch Research, 1800–1930s
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(2011)
Civic Discipline: Geography in America, 1860--1890
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The Drake Well and Unintended Consequences
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(2010)
Science and the Social Good: Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865--1965
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(2018)
A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks
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Sheehan, William;
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From the Transits of Venus to the Birth of Experimental Psychology
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Stephanie Dick;
(2022)
Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society
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(2011)
Disciplining Pleasure: The Erotic Science of the “Kamasutra”
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Kathrin Maurer;
(2023)
The Sensorium of the Drone and Communities
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The Most Perfect Natural Laboratory in the World: Making and Knowing Hawaii National Park
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