Reinventing Eden
The Fate of Nature in Western Culture
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Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7496463M
- ISBN-139780415931649
- ISBN-100415931649
- OCLC Control Number50810674
- OCLC Control Numberreinventingedenf00merc
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002036787
- LibraryThing1547284
- Goodreads893119
Classifications
- LCCGF21 .M473 2003
Description
"Reinventing Eden traces the Garden of Eden myth from the Mesopotamian regions where agriculture - and the creation myth - first began, through the Greek and Roman empires, the Enlightenment, and the modern capitalist world. With eloquence and insight, Merchant shows how the drive to conquer nature, and to explore and settle the globe, springs from this utopian pastoral impulse. Time and again, human manipulation of the environment is our downfall: Eden is achieved by fencing off pristine beauty in national parks and wildlife preserves, while leaving the majority of the Earth in ruins."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Two grand historical narratives explain how the human species arrived at the present moment in history.
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