Philipp Blom 
Subjugate the Earth [EPUB ebook] 
The Beginning and End of Human Domination of Nature

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Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the Earth was included in the Bible, reached Europe through Christianity, and spread to the entire world through colonialism. The Enlightenment gave a scientific appearance to the ambition of controlling nature but did not change the ambition itself. Yet every birth presages a death. On...

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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Up into the Air
Prologue: Buy Me a Cloud
I MYTH
The World on a Vase
Gilgamesh the Hero
The View from the Parapet
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Philipp Blom is a historian and writer who lives in Vienna. He is the author of numerous works including Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeent...

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 433 ● ISBN 9781509561339 ● Tamanho do arquivo 2.0 MB ● Editora Polity ● País GB ● Publicado 2024 ● Edição 1 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 10016940 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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