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UNINA9910285860303321 |
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Desmond, Adrian |
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La sacra causa di Darwin : lotta alla schiavitù e difesa dell'evoluzione / Adrian Desmond, James Moore |
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Milano : Raffaello Cortina, 2012 |
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XVI, 694 p., [8] carte di tav. : ill. ; 24 cm |
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Traduzione di Isabella C. Blum e Gianni Rigamonti |
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UNINA9910463894203321 |
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Howe Joshua P |
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Behind the curve : science and the politics of global warming / / Joshua P. Howe |
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Seattle, District of Columbia : , : University of Washington Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Weyerhaeuser environmental classics |
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Global warming - History |
Atmospheric carbon dioxide |
Environmental protection |
Science - Political aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: telling stories about CO₂ -- The cold war roots of global warming? -- Scientists, environmentalists, and the global atmosphere? -- Making the global environment? -- Climate, the environment, and scientific activism? -- The politics of dissent? -- The IPCC and the primacy of science? -- The gospel of the market? -- Epilogue: climbing out from behind the curve? |
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"In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research, however, our global society has yet to find real solutions to the problem of global warming. Why? In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe attempts to answer this question. He explores the history of global warming from its roots as a scientific curiosity to its place at the center of international environmental politics. The book follows the story of rising CO2--illustrated by the now famous Keeling Curve--through a number of historical contexts, highlighting the relationships among scientists, environmentalists, and politicians as those |
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relationships changed over time. The nature of the problem itself, Howe explains, has privileged scientists as the primary spokespeople for the global climate. But while the "science first" forms of advocacy they developed to fight global warming produced more and better science, the primacy of science in global warming politics has failed to produce meaningful results. In fact, an often exclusive focus on science has left advocates for change vulnerable to political opposition and has limited much of the discussion to debates about the science itself. As a result, while we know much more about global warming than we did fifty years ago, CO2 continues to rise. In 1958, Keeling first measured CO2 at around 315 parts per million; by 2013, global CO2 had soared to 400 ppm. The problem is not getting better - it's getting worse. Behind the Curve offers a critical and levelheaded look at how we got here.Joshua P. Howe teaches history and environmental studies at Reed College."Scientists have proven to be right about the causes of a warming planet, but they have failed to stop the warming. Stopping it involves politics and economics more than science, and in this important book Joshua Howe examines how scientists and environmentalists--although both live in intensely political worlds--have managed to get the science right and the politics wrong. This is not the usual story of heroes and villains. Howe tells a more nuanced story-- a tragedy--in which a somewhat naive faith in science rendered scientists politically impotent in a complicated world. Few books published this year will tell a more important story." - Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford"How shall we deal with climate change? That is not just an important topic but, from the standpoint of future generations, arguably the most important of all topics. Thorough and wide-ranging, this book puts the history of global warming policy in its full political and cultural context." - Spencer Weart, author of The Discovery of Global Warming"Behind the Curve is a much-needed book on the history of climate science and politics stretching back to the immediate post-World War II period." - Mark Carey, author of In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers"-- |
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UNINA9910787968603321 |
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Autore |
Gabriel Elun T. |
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Assassins and conspirators : anarchism, socialism, and political culture in imperial Germany / / Elun T. Gabriel ; Yuni Dorr, design |
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DeKalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , 2014 |
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1-5017-5126-3 |
1-60909-153-1 |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Political culture - Germany - 19th century |
Political culture - Germany - 20th century |
Anarchism |
Socialism |
Germany Politics and government 1871-1918 |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Anarchy, socialism, and the enemies of order in the German empire: 1871-1878 -- Debating the socialist law: 1878 -- The specter of anarchism and the normalization of social democracy: 1878-1885 -- "The socialist law is the father of anarchism": 1886-1890 -- Socialism and the public sphere in the era of anarchist "propaganda of the deed": 1890-1902 -- Anarchist "utopianism" and the internal development of German social democracy: 1890-1914 -- The challenges of liberal political culture in the decade before the Great War: 1903-1914 -- Conclusion: German political culture, democracy, and terrorism. |
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Over the course of the German Empire the Social Democrats went from being a vilified and persecuted minority to becoming the largest party in the Reichstag, enjoying broad-based support. But this was not always the case. In the 1870's, government mouthpieces branded Social Democracy the "party of assassins and conspirators" and sought to excite popular fury against it. Over time, Social Democrats managed to refashion their public image in large part by contrasting themselves to anarchists, who came to represent a politics that went far beyond the |
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boundaries of acceptable behavior. Social Democrats emphasized their overall commitment to peaceful change through parliamentary participation and a willingness to engage their political rivals. They condemned anarchist behavior—terrorism and other political violence specifically—and distanced themselves from the alleged anarchist personal characteristics of rashness, emotionalism, cowardice, and secrecy. Repeated public debate about the appropriate place of Socialism in German society, and its relationship to anarchist terrorism, helped Socialists and others, such as liberals, political Catholics, and national minorities, cement the principles of legal equality and a vigorous public sphere in German political culture. Using a diverse array of primary sources from newspapers and political pamphlets to Reichstag speeches to police reports on anarchist and socialist activity, this book sets the history of Social Democracy within the context of public political debate about democracy, the rule of law, and the appropriate use of state power. Gabriel also places the history of German anarchism in the larger contexts of German history and the history of European socialism, where its importance has often been understated because of the movement's small size and failure to create a long-term mass movement. |
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