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The Great Acceleration
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ISBN: 0674545036 0674970748 067497073X 9780674970731 9780674970748 9780674545038 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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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.


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The Resilient City in World War II
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ISBN: 9783030174392 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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Global Interdependence
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ISBN: 9780674270657 0674270657 9780674045729 0674045726 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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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."--


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The Cambridge world history
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ISBN: 9781107107724 9780521763332 9780521192187 9780521190084 9781107015722 9780521190749 9780521761628 9780521192460 9781107000209 9780521199643 9781108406420 9781108407649 9781108407694 9781108407717 9781108407724 9781108407731 9781108407748 9781108407755 9781108407762 0521199646 0521192463 1107000203 0521192188 0521190746 0521763339 052176162X 1107015723 0521190088 9781139196079 9780511667480 9781139059251 9781316182789 9781139194594 9780511978807 9781139035606 9781139194662 9781139022460 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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A Living Past

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Think in Public
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ISBN: 0231548710 9780231548717 9780231190084 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York, NY

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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.

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