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200 10$aMinutes to midnight $ehistory and the Anthropocene era from 1763 /$fPaul Dukes$b[electronic resource]
210  1$aLondon :$cAnthem Press,$d2011.
215   $a1 online resource (xii, 153 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
225 1 $aAnthem World History
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
311   $a0-85728-779-6 
327   $aIntroduction: 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. 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.
330   $aThe book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.
410  0$aAnthem World History
606   $aScience and civilization
606   $aNature$xEffect of human beings on
606   $aGlobal environmental change
606   $aHuman ecology
606   $aHistory, Modern
615  0$aScience and civilization.
615  0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on.
615  0$aGlobal environmental change.
615  0$aHuman ecology.
615  0$aHistory, Modern.
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