Download or read book Uncertain Climes written by Joseph Giacomelli and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century written by Herbert Levi Osgood and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough history of legal, institutional and administrative aspects of life in the colonies. For contents, see Author Catalog.

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Download or read book The Climate of History in a Planetary Age written by Dipesh Chakrabarty and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : intimations of the planetary -- The globe and the planet. Four theses; Conjoined histories; The planet : a humanist category -- The difficulty of being modern. The difficulty of being modern; Planetary aspirations : reading a suicide in India; In the ruins of an enduring fable -- Facing the planetary. Anthropocene time -- Toward an anthropological clearing -- Postscript : the global reveals the planetary : a conversation with Bruno Latour.

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