Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors xi
5. Foreword: Dipesh Chakrabarty xv
6. Introduction: New Earth Histories 1
7. Part I New Earthly Cosmologies
8. 1 Of Celestial Gods and Terrestrial Globes in Modern India 17
9. 2 Living in an Eggshell: Cosmological Emplacement in Nguyễn Vietnam, 1802–1883 35
10. 3 The Mountain’s Many Faces: How Geologists Mistook Chomolungma for Everest 53
11. 4 Think like a Fish: New Oceanic Histories 70
12. Part II New Geo-Theologies
13. 5 The Voices of an Eloquent Earth: Tracing the Many Directions of Colonial Geo-Theology 93
14. 6 The Spiritual Geographies of Plate Tectonics: Javanese Islam, Volcanology, and Earth’s New History 108
15. 7 Geo-Spiritualities of the Flood: Political Geologies of the Great Deluge on the Mountains of Anatolia 127
16. Part III New Elemental Histories
17. 8 “Glass Worke”: Precious Minerals and the Archives of Early Modern 145
18. 9 “The Agent of the Most Dire of Calamities”: Ice, Waste, and Frozen Futures 163
19. 10 Hydropolitics for a New Nation: Hydrological Origins and Limits for the Australian Interior 179
20. 11 Earth Time, Ice Time, Species Time: The Emergence of Glacial Chronology 192
21. 12 Exchanging Fire: A Planetary History of the Explosion 209
22. Part IV New Geo-Temporalities
23. 13 Holocene Time Perspective 227
24. 14 “American Blitzkrieg” or “Ecological Indian”? Inequalities in Narrating Environmental Degradation through Deep Time 247
25. 15 Imperial Melancholy and the Subversion of Ruins in the Amazon 263
26. 16 Gondwanaland Fictions: Modern Histories of an Ancient Continent 279
27. Afterword 297
28. Notes 299
29. Index 359