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 […]
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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. […]
The Right to be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
Description Watt-Cloutier gives a biographical account of her work on climate justice in the Arctic region. She discusses her perspective on climate change coming from an Indigenous community perspective. Her notion “the right to be […]
The Melting Ice Cellar: What Native Traditional Knowledge is Teaching Us about Global Warming and Environmental Change
Description The knowledge systems of Indigenous peoples have historically been rejected by many scientific fields. Climate science is just beginning to catch on to the value of Indigenous knowledge systems. Cochran and Geller discuss the […]