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The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age—the Anthropocene. Humans have altered the planet’s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. The Great Acceleration explains the causes, consequences, and uncertainties of this massive uncontrolled experiment.
Nature --- Human ecology --- Global environmental change --- Effect of human beings on --- History --- Environmental change, Global --- Global change, Environmental --- Global environmental changes --- Change --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Ecología humana --- Climatic changes --- Socioecología --- Supervivencia (Ecología humana) --- Medio ambiente humano --- Ecología --- Geografía humana
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"Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from the end of World War II to the present, an era when transnational communities began to challenge the long domination of the nation-state. In this single-volume survey, leading scholars elucidate the political, economic, cultural, and environmental forces that have shaped the planet in the past sixty years. Offering fresh insight into international politics since 1945, Wilfried Loth examines how miscalculations by both the United States and the Soviet Union brought about a Cold War conflict that was not necessarily inevitable. Thomas Zeiler explains how American free-market principles spurred the creation of an entirely new economic order--a global system in which goods and money flowed across national borders at an unprecedented rate, fueling growth for some nations while also creating inequalities in large parts of the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. From an environmental viewpoint, J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke contend that humanity has entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene era, in which massive industrialization and population growth have become the most powerful influences upon global ecology. Petra Goedde analyzes how globalization has impacted indigenous cultures and questions the extent to which a generic culture has erased distinctiveness and authenticity. She shows how, paradoxically, the more cultures blended, the more diversified they became as well. Combining these different perspectives, volume editor Akira Iriye presents a model of transnational historiography in which individuals and groups enter history not primarily as citizens of a country but as migrants, tourists, artists, and missionaries--actors who create networks that transcend traditional geopolitical boundaries."--
Globalization. --- Transnationalism. --- International relations. --- International economic relations. --- World politics --- Mondialisation. --- Relations internationales --- Transnationalisme. --- Géopolitique. --- Politique économique --- Globalization --- International economic relations --- International relations --- Transnationalism
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World history. --- Histoire universelle --- 93 --- Geschiedenis --- World history --- Histoire universelle. --- Ancient history --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799
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Ecology. --- Human ecology --- Human ecology. --- Nature --- History --- Effect of human beings on --- Effect of human beings on. --- Latin America --- Latin America. --- Environmental conditions.
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Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large.Think in Public: A Public Books Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the magazine's distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered here are Public Books contributions from today's leading thinkers, including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, Nathan Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge.
English literature --- Literature, Victorian --- Victorian literature
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