Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences, Gebunden

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Part I. Big themes in historiography of earth sciences.- Reflections on the historiography of the earth sciences.- Philosophy and Earth Sciences.- Premodern earth and environmental science.- Lyell and Darwin as geologists.- Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism.- Part II. Formations.- Oceans.- Ice and Ice Age.- Planets.- Earthquakes.- Rivers.- Frozen earth.- Part III. Institutions and Practices.- Collections / museums.- Expeditions / Fieldwork in Earth Sciences.- Capitalism and imperialism in Earth Science.- Mining.- Data and Visual culture of geology.- Part IV. Perspectives.- Postcolonial perspectives.- Indigenous knowledge and perspectives.- Earth Systems Science.- Internationalism and the Earth & Environmental Sciences.- Labor and Credit.- Metaphors of Cyclicity in Earth and Human History.- Part V. Geographies.- The Mediterranean.- Earth Sciences and Latin America.- Earth Sciences and Africa.- Mining in Imperial Russia.