Minutes to midnight : history and the Anthropocene era from 1763 / / Paul Dukes [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Dukes Paul <1934->
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 153 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 909.82
• Soggetto topico: Science and civilization; Nature - Effect of human beings on; Global environmental change; Human ecology; History, Modern
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: 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. 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Minutes to midnight
• ISBN: 1-283-37721-7; 9786613377210; 0-85728-925-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461439503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthem World History