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In How the Earth Feels Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture. Drawing on early geological writings, Indigenous and settler accounts of earthquakes, African American antislavery literature, and other works, Luciano reveals how geology catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world. She shows that understanding the earths history geologically involved confronting the dynamic nature of inorganic matter over vast spans of time, challenging preconceived notions of human agency. Nineteenth-century Americans came to terms with these changes through a fusion of fact and imagination that Luciano calls geological fantasy. Geological fantasy transformed the science into a sensory experience, sponsoring affective and even erotic connections to the matter of the earth. At the same time, it was often used to justify accounts of evolution that posited a modern, civilized, and Anglo-American whiteness as the pinnacle of human development. By tracing geologys relationship with biopower, Luciano illuminates how imagined connections with the earth shaped American dynamics of power, race, and colonization
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![On American Geological History. [With "Plan of Development in the Geological History of North America. With a map. By J. D. Dana".] (Extracted from the American Journal of Science and Arts.)](https://coverdb.com/reviewSE/w90/a70/1241506868.jpg)
![Old Greenock from the Earliest Times to the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century, with some account of the Burgh of Cartsburn and Burgh of Barony of Crawfurdsdyke, etc. [With plates.]](https://coverdb.com/reviewSE/w90/7fd/1241124620.jpg)
