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Uncertain Climes

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Author : Joseph Giacomelli
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-04-05

Uncertain Climes written by Joseph Giacomelli and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-05 with History categories.

"Drawing on the writings of scientists, foresters, surveyors, and settlers, Joseph Giacomelli shows that climate uncertainty infused Gilded Age thinking about economic growth and national development. He details a multivalent discourse on climate that infused both practical concerns and overarching political themes, not least Manifest Destiny. Giacomelli makes it clear that uncertainty drew together concerns about human-induced climate change and cultural worries about the sustainability of capitalist expansionism. A rising belief in scientific positivism was matched by a growing awareness of the illusory nature of scientific certainty; faith in society's power to improve landscapes tussled with persistent fears of environmental catastrophe"--

Uncertain Climes

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Author : Joseph Giacomelli
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-04-05

Uncertain Climes looks to the late nineteenth century to reveal how climate anxiety was a crucial element in the emergence of American modernity. Even people who still refuse to accept the reality of human-induced climate change would have to agree that the topic has become inescapable in the United States in recent decades. But as Joseph Giacomelli shows in Uncertain Climes, this is actually nothing new: as far back as Gilded Age America, climate uncertainty has infused major debates on economic growth and national development. In this ambitious examination of late-nineteenth-century understandings of climate, Giacomelli draws on the work of scientists, foresters, surveyors, and settlers to demonstrate how central the subject was to the emergence of American modernity. Amid constant concerns about volatile weather patterns and the use of natural resources, nineteenth-century Americans developed a multilayered discourse on climate and what it might mean for the nation’s future. Although climate science was still in its nascent stages during the Gilded Age, fears and hopes about climate change animated the overarching political struggles of the time, including expansion into the American West. Giacomelli makes clear that uncertainty was the common theme linking concerns about human-induced climate change with cultural worries about the sustainability of capitalist expansionism in an era remarkably similar to the United States’ unsettled present.

European And Non European Societies 1450 1800

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Author : Robert Forster
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-16

European And Non European Societies 1450 1800 written by Robert Forster and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with History categories.

First published in 1997, this is the first of two volumes. It looks at the process of European expansion which brought into contact societies and cultures across the world which had been initially alien to one another. Conflict, and violent conflict, was one aspect of this interaction, but accommodation, mutual adaptation, and institutional and behavioural synthesis were also present though often biased in favour of European norms. The intent of this book is to avoid treating ’colonization’, ’dominance’ and exploitation’ as the only focuses of attention. In the first volume Robert Forster explores issues of formative influences, the impact of Eurocentrism on historiography and the reaction against it, and the differing approaches and perceptions of the Europeans, notably the Spanish, French and English. In this period he distinguishes three modes of interaction: that of the trading empires, generally in Africa and Asia, where the European control of the encounter was slighter; and those of the regions of settlement, as in North America, and of exploitation, typified by the Caribbean, where the European impact was profound. The second volume focuses on the Americas, and uses the topics of religion, class, gender, and race as its points of entry.

The Modern World System Ii

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Author : Immanuel Wallerstein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-06-10

The Modern World System Ii written by Immanuel Wallerstein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-10 with History categories.

Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

The Uruguay A Historical Romance Of South America

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Author : José Basilio da Gama
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1982-01-01

The Uruguay A Historical Romance Of South America written by José Basilio da Gama and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

Goshen Sunset Poems From The Mountaintop Vol Ii

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Author : Thomas Henry Carter, PhD.
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-02-20

Goshen Sunset Poems From The Mountaintop Vol Ii written by Thomas Henry Carter, PhD. and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-20 with Poetry categories.

Goshen Sunset: Poems From The Mountaintop - olume II consists of selected poems that describes the mountain environment of Goshen, West Virginia. The poems describe the natural wonders of Goshen and the emotions that the author experienced while walking its wood trails.