Description Discusses the influence of Enlightenment stadial theory on the ideas of Norbert Elias, particularly as these relate to the utilization of natural resources. Creator Wolloch, Nathaniel Publisher “The Civilizing Process, Nature, and Stadial Theory,” […]
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Ice, Mud, and Blood
Description Ice, Mud and Blood moves through global climate history, and the accompanying science, more or less chronologically, weaving together diverse climate periods and expert knowledge about them. The first chapter “Greenhouse” is a bird’s […]
Invisible in the Storm: The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather
Description Readable and informative, Invisible in the Storm is an important companion book for weather and climate scholars because it emphasizes an additional lens through which weather can be studied––the history of math. Invisible in […]
Air Apparent
Description Air Apparent shows how the weather map has taken on a variety of forms throughout the last four centuries––moving from a hand-eye executed graphic object to a computer-printed and later digitally displayed graphic––by tracing […]
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
Description Written from a Marxist perspective, this book examines the emergence of capitalist modernity in terms of the extraction of natural resources. It analyzes the ways in which the Enlightenment ideology of history as progress […]
The Theology of Climate Change: Sin as Agency in the Enlightenment’s AnthropoceneThe Theology of Climate Change: Sin as Agency in the Enlightenment’s Anthropocene
Creator Barnett, Lydia Publisher Environmental History 20 (2015): 217–37. Contributor White, Sam Language English Type Article
The Letter from Dublin: Climate Change, Colonialism, and the Royal Society in the Seventeenth Century
Description This article discusses an anonymous letter published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1676 that reports the theories of American colonists about the cause of their warming climate (cultivation and deforestation), and offers Ireland’s colonial […]
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
Description A global history of the 1815 Tambora eruption, the climate changes it brought, and their impact on societies, culture, and science. Includes chapters on the experiences of famines in Bengal, Yunnan, and Ireland, and […]
A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America
Description European encountered climates in northern North America that were harsher and more variable than their notions about weather and geography led them to expect. In A Temperate Empire, Anya Zilberstein reveals how colonial conditions […]
“The Climate of History: Four Theses”
Description This article argues that the thesis of the Anthropocene offers grounds for a reconciliation between human history and natural history, abolishing the Enlightenment ideology of history as the progressive conquest of nature by Man. […]