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Dukes Paul <1934-> |
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Minutes to midnight : history and the Anthropocene era from 1763 / / Paul Dukes [[electronic resource]] |
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London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011 |
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1-283-37721-7 |
9786613377210 |
0-85728-925-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 153 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science and civilization |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
Global environmental change |
Human ecology |
History, Modern |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Times and Approaches -- Enlightenment and Revolutions, 1763-1815. James Watt and the first industrial revolution ; Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson: the stages of historical development ; The American and French revolutions ; Enlightenment and intellectual revolutions ; Napoleon ; Conclusion -- Nations and -Isms, 1815-1871. Nations and -isms ; Monarchism, nationalism, liberalism ; Socialism ; Darwinism and other -isms ; History and historians ; Conclusion -- Natural Selection, 1871-1921. The new imperialism ; The second scientific and industrial revolution ; New history and culture ; The first world war and Russian revolution ; The circumstances of peace ; Conclusion -- From Relativity to Totalitarianism, 1921-1945. 'Normalcy' and breakdown, 1921-1929 ; The revival of history ; From Depression to war, 1929-1939, and history ; The second world war, 1939-1945, and history ; The arrival of the atomic bomb ; Conclusion -- Superpower, 1945-1968. Superpower ; The Cold War and decolonisation ; Another new history? ;; The Cold War and history ; Decolonisation and history ; Conclusion -- Planet Earth, 1968-1991. |
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Globalisation ; 1968 and after ; The Club of Rome, the Brandt Commission and Gaia -- History, historical sociology, postmodernism ; The world by 1991 -- Minutes to Midnight, 1991. The crisis ; What crisis? 'The end of history', 'The clash of civilizations' and after ; Summary: the Anthropocene Era ; Conclusion: toward pandisciplinarity. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history. |
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