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Vanished - An Unnatural History of Extinction (Hardcover)
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Vanished - An Unnatural History of Extinction (Hardcover)
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From an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a
path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea,
an imperial legacy and a political choice
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over
90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to
think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish
forever, or as capable of pushing our planet to the verge of a sixth
mass extinction?
Extinction, Sadiah Qureshi shows us, is a surprisingly modern concept –
and a phenomenon that’s not as natural as we might think. In Europe
until the late eighteenth century, species were considered perfect and
unchanging creations of God. Then in the age of revolutions, scientists
gathered enough fossil evidence to determine that mammoth bones, for
example, were not just large elephants but a lost species that once
roamed the Earth alongside ancient humans. Extinction went from being
regarded as theologically dangerous to pervasive, and even inevitable.
Yet Vanished shows us that extinction is more than a scientific idea;
it’s a political choice that has led to devasting consequences.
Europeans and Americans quickly used the notion that extinction was a
natural process to justify persecution and genocide, predicting that
nations from Newfoundland’s Beothuk to Aboriginal Australians were
doomed to die out from imperial expansion.
Exploring the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire,
Vanished weaves together pioneering original research and breath-taking
storytelling to show us extinction is both an evolutionary process and
a human act: one which illuminates our past, and may alter our future.
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