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

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Foreword: Dipesh Chakrabarty
Introduction: New Earth Histories | Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, and Adam Bobbette
Part I. New Earthly Cosmologies
	1. Of Celestial Gods and Terrestrial Globes in Modern India | Sumathi Ramaswamy
	2. Living in an Eggshell: Cosmological Emplacement in Nguyễn Vietnam, 1802–1883 | Kathryn Dyt
	3. The Mountain’s Many Faces: How Geologists Mistook Chomolungma for Everest | Ruth Gamble
	4. Think like a Fish: New Oceanic Histories | Anne Salmond, Dan Hikuroa, and Natalie Robertson
Part II. New Geo-Theologies
	5. The Voices of an Eloquent Earth: Tracing the Many Directions of Colonial Geo-Theology | Jarrod Hore
	6. The Spiritual Geographies of Plate Tectonics: Javanese Islam, Volcanology, and Earth’s New History | Adam Bobbette
	7. Geo-Spiritualities of the Flood: Political Geologies of the Great Deluge on the Mountains of Anatolia | Zeynep Oguz
Part III. New Elemental Histories
	8. “Glass Worke”: Precious Minerals and the Archives of Early Modern Earth Sciences | Claire Conklin Sabel
	9. “The Agent of the Most Dire of Calamities”: Ice, Waste, and Frozen Futures | Alexis Rider
	10. Hydropolitics for a New Nation: Hydrological Origins and Limits for the Australian Interior | Ruth A. Morgan
	11. Earth Time, Ice Time, Species Time: The Emergence of Glacial Chronology | Emily M. Kern
	12. Exchanging Fire: A Planetary History of the Explosion | Nigel Clark
Part IV. New Geo-Temporalities
	13. Holocene Time Perspective | Perrin Selcer
	14. “American Blitzkrieg” or “Ecological Indian”? Inequalities in Narrating Environmental Degradation through Deep Time | Melissa Charenko
	15. Imperial Melancholy and the Subversion of Ruins in the Amazon | Raphael Uchôa
	16. Gondwanaland Fictions: Modern Histories of an Ancient Continent | Alison Bashford
Afterword | Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, and Adam Bobbette
Notes
Index