After the Flood

Autorentext
Lydia Barnett is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University.

Klappentext

How the story of Noah's Flood was central to the development of a global environmental consciousness in early modern Europe.

Zusammenfassung
Following Noah's Flood as a popular topic of debate through long-distance networks of knowledge from the late sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries, Barnett reveals how early modern earth and environmental sciences were shaped by gender, evangelism, empire, race, and nation.