Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform (review)
Journal: Victorian review
Year: 2010

Reviewed by: Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform Irena G. Malakhova (bio) Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform by Martin J.S. Rudwick; pp. 614. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. $40.50 paper. Martin J.S. Rudwick's monograph is a hymn to geology as a historical science. Rudwick penetrates the philosophies of science and religion, an [End Page 140] approach that clearly comes from his professional studies as a pal