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Reinventing Eden : The Fate of Nature in Western Culture / by Carolyn Merchant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merchant, Carolyn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Philosophy.
- Human ecology.
- Human ecology--History.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This 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.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Genesis of the recovery narrative
- pt. II. New world edens
- pt. III. New stories.
- Notes:
- First published in 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-16124-4
- 0-203-07964-7
- 1-299-31936-X
- 1-136-16125-2
- 9780203079645
- OCLC:
- 831118001
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