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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Inscriptions of Nature
Author: Pratik Chakrabarti
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421438755
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Learn how the deep history of nature became a dominant paradigm of historical thinking, through a study of landscapes of India. Winner of the BSHS Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science, Shortlisted for the Pfizer Award for an Outstanding Book in the History of Science by the History of Science Society In the nineteenth century, teams of men began digging the earth like never before. Sometimes this digging—often for sewage, transport, or minerals—revealed human remains. Other times, archaeological excavation of ancient cities unearthed prehistoric fossils, while excavations for irrigation canals revealed buried cities. Concurrently, geologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, and missionaries were also digging into ancient texts and genealogies and delving into the lives and bodies of indigenous populations, their myths, legends, and pasts. One pursuit was intertwined with another in this encounter with the earth and its inhabitants—past, present, and future. In Inscriptions of Nature, Pratik Chakrabarti argues that, in both the real and the metaphorical digging of the earth, the deep history of nature, landscape, and people became indelibly inscribed in the study and imagination of antiquity. The first book to situate deep history as an expression of political, economic, and cultural power, this volume shows that it is complicit in the European and colonial appropriation of global nature, commodities, temporalities, and myths. The book also provides a new interpretation of the relationship between nature and history. Arguing that the deep history of the earth became pervasive within historical imaginations of monuments, communities, and territories in the nineteenth century, Chakrabarti studies these processes in the Indian subcontinent, from the banks of the Yamuna and Ganga rivers to the Himalayas to the deep ravines and forests of central India. He also examines associated themes of Hindu antiquarianism, sacred geographies, and tribal aboriginality. Based on extensive archival research, the book provides insights into state formation, mining of natural resources, and the creation of national topographies. Driven by the geological imagination of India as well as its landscape, people, past, and destiny, Inscriptions of Nature reveals how human evolution, myths, aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined Indian antiquity.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421438755
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Learn how the deep history of nature became a dominant paradigm of historical thinking, through a study of landscapes of India. Winner of the BSHS Pickstone Prize by the British Society for the History of Science, Shortlisted for the Pfizer Award for an Outstanding Book in the History of Science by the History of Science Society In the nineteenth century, teams of men began digging the earth like never before. Sometimes this digging—often for sewage, transport, or minerals—revealed human remains. Other times, archaeological excavation of ancient cities unearthed prehistoric fossils, while excavations for irrigation canals revealed buried cities. Concurrently, geologists, ethnologists, archaeologists, and missionaries were also digging into ancient texts and genealogies and delving into the lives and bodies of indigenous populations, their myths, legends, and pasts. One pursuit was intertwined with another in this encounter with the earth and its inhabitants—past, present, and future. In Inscriptions of Nature, Pratik Chakrabarti argues that, in both the real and the metaphorical digging of the earth, the deep history of nature, landscape, and people became indelibly inscribed in the study and imagination of antiquity. The first book to situate deep history as an expression of political, economic, and cultural power, this volume shows that it is complicit in the European and colonial appropriation of global nature, commodities, temporalities, and myths. The book also provides a new interpretation of the relationship between nature and history. Arguing that the deep history of the earth became pervasive within historical imaginations of monuments, communities, and territories in the nineteenth century, Chakrabarti studies these processes in the Indian subcontinent, from the banks of the Yamuna and Ganga rivers to the Himalayas to the deep ravines and forests of central India. He also examines associated themes of Hindu antiquarianism, sacred geographies, and tribal aboriginality. Based on extensive archival research, the book provides insights into state formation, mining of natural resources, and the creation of national topographies. Driven by the geological imagination of India as well as its landscape, people, past, and destiny, Inscriptions of Nature reveals how human evolution, myths, aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined Indian antiquity.
Johns Hopkins University Studies in Geology
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Geology by Design
Author: Carl R. Froede, Jr.
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0890515034
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A study peeling back the layers of biblical geology.
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0890515034
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A study peeling back the layers of biblical geology.
The Johns Hopkins University Circular
Author: Johns Hopkins University
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, registers, announcement material, etc.
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, registers, announcement material, etc.
Report of the President of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Author: Johns Hopkins University
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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The Appalachian-Ouachita Orogen in the United States
Author: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813754526
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813754526
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
Author: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
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Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
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Category : Petroleum
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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List of members in each volume.
Origin by Design
Author: Harold G. Coffin
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828017763
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In search of evidence for design, the authors leave no stone unturned. After surveying the Genesis creation and flood narratives, they examine coal beds, fossil tracks, mass extinctions, glaciation, volcanism, carbon 14 dating, rates of mutation, and Neanderthal man, looking for clues to the age and origin of life on earth. With copius illustrations this updated revision incorporates new advances in plate tectonics, turbidity currents, and recent geological catastrophes. A wonderful science-based textbook and reference for the question of our beginnings.
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
ISBN: 9780828017763
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In search of evidence for design, the authors leave no stone unturned. After surveying the Genesis creation and flood narratives, they examine coal beds, fossil tracks, mass extinctions, glaciation, volcanism, carbon 14 dating, rates of mutation, and Neanderthal man, looking for clues to the age and origin of life on earth. With copius illustrations this updated revision incorporates new advances in plate tectonics, turbidity currents, and recent geological catastrophes. A wonderful science-based textbook and reference for the question of our beginnings.
Classed Subject Catalog
Author: Engineering Societies Library
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Category : Classified catalogs (Universal decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category : Classified catalogs (Universal decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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