The Resource Minutes to midnight : history and the Anthropocene era from 1763, Paul Dukes
Minutes to midnight : history and the Anthropocene era from 1763, Paul Dukes
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- "The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by a group of atomic scientists to symbolise the perils facing humanity from nuclear weapons. In 2007 it was set at five minutes before the final bell, including for the first time the threat of climate change as well as new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology. This book aims at an analysis of the evolution of our present predicament throughout the Anthropocene Era beginning in 1763, making special reference to the history of the period, the study of the subject and major advances in the natural sciences. Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson set out the basis for a scientific approach to the pre-industrial stages of historical development in the Enlightenment of the late eighteenth century, when the American and French Revolutions created a vocabulary of modernity. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the industrial revolution unfolded in several stages, nationalism, imperialism and totalitarianism were among the phenomena impeding the update of the Enlightenment programme as well as the fulfilment of the aspirations of 1776 and 1789. Our present predicament demands a rigorous examination of its origins and an assertion of a scientific pandisciplinary approach involving history and other academic specialisations"--
- "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 throughout the period. It seeks to demonstrate the necessity for history as science, while pointing out the inadequacy of some previous approaches. It argues for a pandisciplinary approach to today's crisis"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 153 pages)
- Note
- Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Introduction: Times and Approaches 2. Enlightenment and Revolutions, 1763-1815 3. Nations and -Isms, 1815-1871 4. Natural Selection, 1871-1921 5. From Relativity to Totalitarianism, 1921-1945 6. Superpower, 1945-1968 7. Planet Earth, 1968-1991 8. Minutes to Midnight, 1991- Notes
- Contents
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- Front Matter; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Main Matter; Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: TIMES AND APPROACHES; Chapter 2: 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; Chapter 3: NATIONS AND -ISMS, 1815-1871; Nations and -Isms; Monarchism, Nationalism, Liberalism; Socialism; Darwinism and Other -Isms; History and Historians; Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9781283377218
- Label
- Minutes to midnight : history and the Anthropocene era from 1763
- Title
- Minutes to midnight
- Title remainder
- history and the Anthropocene era from 1763
- Statement of responsibility
- Paul Dukes
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- Global environmental change
- Global environmental change
- HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century
- HISTORY -- Modern | General
- Histoire moderne et contemporaine
- History & Archaeology
- History - General
- History, Modern
- History, Modern
- Human ecology
- Human ecology
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Science and civilization
- Science and civilization
- Sciences et civilisation
- Écologie humaine
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by a group of atomic scientists to symbolise the perils facing humanity from nuclear weapons. In 2007 it was set at five minutes before the final bell, including for the first time the threat of climate change as well as new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology. This book aims at an analysis of the evolution of our present predicament throughout the Anthropocene Era beginning in 1763, making special reference to the history of the period, the study of the subject and major advances in the natural sciences. Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson set out the basis for a scientific approach to the pre-industrial stages of historical development in the Enlightenment of the late eighteenth century, when the American and French Revolutions created a vocabulary of modernity. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the industrial revolution unfolded in several stages, nationalism, imperialism and totalitarianism were among the phenomena impeding the update of the Enlightenment programme as well as the fulfilment of the aspirations of 1776 and 1789. Our present predicament demands a rigorous examination of its origins and an assertion of a scientific pandisciplinary approach involving history and other academic specialisations"--
- "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 throughout the period. It seeks to demonstrate the necessity for history as science, while pointing out the inadequacy of some previous approaches. It argues for a pandisciplinary approach to today's crisis"--
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1934-
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- Dukes, Paul
- Dewey number
- 909.82
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- CB478
- LC item number
- .D85 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- bibliography
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- Science and civilization
- Nature
- Global environmental change
- Human ecology
- History, Modern
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
- Global environmental change
- History, Modern
- Human ecology
- Nature
- Science and civilization
- History & Archaeology
- History - General
- Sciences et civilisation
- Écologie humaine
- Histoire moderne et contemporaine
- Label
- Minutes to midnight : history and the Anthropocene era from 1763, Paul Dukes
- Note
- Machine generated contents note: Preface 1. Introduction: Times and Approaches 2. Enlightenment and Revolutions, 1763-1815 3. Nations and -Isms, 1815-1871 4. Natural Selection, 1871-1921 5. From Relativity to Totalitarianism, 1921-1945 6. Superpower, 1945-1968 7. Planet Earth, 1968-1991 8. Minutes to Midnight, 1991- Notes
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
- Front Matter; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Main Matter; Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: TIMES AND APPROACHES; Chapter 2: 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; Chapter 3: NATIONS AND -ISMS, 1815-1871; Nations and -Isms; Monarchism, Nationalism, Liberalism; Socialism; Darwinism and Other -Isms; History and Historians; Conclusion
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- Minutes to midnight : history and the Anthropocene era from 1763, Paul Dukes
- Note
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- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Front Matter; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Main Matter; Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: TIMES AND APPROACHES; Chapter 2: 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; Chapter 3: NATIONS AND -ISMS, 1815-1871; Nations and -Isms; Monarchism, Nationalism, Liberalism; Socialism; Darwinism and Other -Isms; History and Historians; Conclusion
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- 767731725
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Subject
- Electronic books
- Global environmental change
- Global environmental change
- HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century
- HISTORY -- Modern | General
- Histoire moderne et contemporaine
- History & Archaeology
- History - General
- History, Modern
- History, Modern
- Human ecology
- Human ecology
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Science and civilization
- Science and civilization
- Sciences et civilisation
- Écologie humaine
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