New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World

by Dipesh Chakrabarty

A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.

This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of the earth's origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed modern environmental sciences? How have different world traditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226828603
• ISBN13: 9780226828602
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"