| Contents |
A garden planet -- The fall from Eden -- Recovering the garden -- From wilderness to civilization -- Adam as hero -- Eve as nature -- Colonizing Eden -- Eden commodified -- Earth in recovery -- Order out of chaos -- Partnership. |
| Review |
"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."--Jacket. |
| Local note | Little-473671--3051310694953 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index. |
| Access restriction | Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2002036787 |
| ISBN | 0415931649 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780415931649 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780203497623 |
| ISBN | 0203497627 |
| ISBN | 0415931657 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415931656 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781280047534 |
| ISBN | 1280047534 |
