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 […]
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Re-Thinking Colonialism to Prepare for the Impacts of Rapid Environmental Change
Description Reo and Parker discuss how landscape change similar to what people are concerned about with climate change today has a long history in certain regions. In what is now called the Eastern U.S., colonialism […]
Natural Disasters and the Debate on the Unity or Plurality of Enlightenments
Description Discusses eighteenth-century views of natural portents and disasters, mainly in the thought of Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith, and claims, vis-à-vis Jonathan Israel’s thesis regarding the Radical Enlightenment, that in fact the Moderate Enlightenment […]