{"product_id":"how-the-new-world-became-caroline-winterer-9780691199672","title":"How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselves\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by terrifying beasts. \u003ci\u003eT. rex\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrontosaurus\u003c\/i\u003e ruled the continent. North America was home to saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths, great herds of camels and hippos, and sultry tropical forests now fossilized into massive coal seams. \u003ci\u003eHow the New World Became Old\u003c\/i\u003e tells the extraordinary story of how Americans discovered that the New World was not just old--it was a place rooted in deep time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this panoramic book, Caroline Winterer traces the history of an idea that today lies at the heart of the nation's identity as a place of primordial natural beauty. Europeans called America the New World, and literal readings of the Bible suggested that Earth was only six thousand years old. Winterer takes readers from glacier-capped peaks in Yosemite to Alabama slave plantations and canal works in upstate New York, describing how naturalists, explorers, engineers, and ordinary Americans unearthed a past they never suspected, a history more ancient than anyone ever could have imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on archival evidence ranging from unpublished field notes and letters to early stratigraphic diagrams, \u003ci\u003eHow the New World Became Old\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how the deep time revolution ushered in profound changes in science, literature, art, and religion, and how Americans came to realize that the New World might in fact be the oldest world of all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caroline Winterer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691199671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691199672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Caroline Winterer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45897652404479,"sku":"9780691199672","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7fafeb2-fde3-486e-b465-5c782dc9fa1a.jpg?v=1721374421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-the-new-world-became-caroline-winterer-9780691199672","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}