What is the historical phenomenon Keith Thomas calls “human ascendancy?Where,when and why did it originate?

Human Ascendancy

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Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800,

Thomas, K ., Penguin, 1991, pp 17-50, 309-319:

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What is the historical phenomenon Keith Thomas calls “human ascendancy?Where,when and why did it originate? What did it replace? Why and how have people maintained and elaborated it over the last few centuries? What does it predict for the future?