Uncertain Climes

Author : Joseph Giacomelli
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226824438
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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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: "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"--

Author : Dipesh Chakrabarty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022673305X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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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: For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to reconsider—from the changed nature of human agency to a new acceptance of universals. Chakrabarty argues that we must see ourselves from two perspectives at once: the planetary and the global. This distinction is central to Chakrabarty’s work—the globe is a human-centric construction, while a planetary perspective intentionally decenters the human. Featuring wide-ranging excursions into historical and philosophical literatures, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age boldly considers how to frame the human condition in troubled times. As we open ourselves to the implications of the Anthropocene, few writers are as likely as Chakrabarty to shape our understanding of the best way forward.

Author : National association for the promotion of social science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions written by National association for the promotion of social science and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyrus George Dunn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of a Crystal in the Formation of the Solar System written by Cyrus George Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science written by National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume for 1886 contains the proceedings of the "Conference on temperance legislation, London, 1886."

Author : Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Further Memories written by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Levi Osgood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: The chartered colonies. Beginnings of self-government written by Herbert Levi Osgood and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 618 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.

Author : Herbert Levi Osgood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Samuel Stillman Greene
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of English Grammar written by Samuel Stillman Greene and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristine C. Harper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659792X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make It Rain written by Kristine C. Harper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with interest by all, regardless of political or scientific persuasion. But between the late nineteenth century—when the United States first funded an attempt to “shock” rain out of clouds—and the late 1940s, rainmaking (as it had been known) became weather control. And then things got out of control. In Make It Rain, Kristine C. Harper tells the long and somewhat ludicrous history of state-funded attempts to manage, manipulate, and deploy the weather in America. Harper shows that governments from the federal to the local became helplessly captivated by the idea that weather control could promote agriculture, health, industrial output, and economic growth at home, or even be used as a military weapon and diplomatic tool abroad. Clear fog for landing aircraft? There’s a project for that. Gentle rain for strawberries? Let’s do it! Enhanced snowpacks for hydroelectric utilities? Check. The heyday of these weather control programs came during the Cold War, as the atmosphere came to be seen as something to be defended, weaponized, and manipulated. Yet Harper demonstrates that today there are clear implications for our attempts to solve the problems of climate change.