Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated: by the conquistadors in the New World, by the French revolutionaries of 1789, by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth century, by the European imperialists in Asia and Africa until the Second World War.
Climate change was at the heart of fundamental debates about colonisation, God, the state, nature, and capitalism. From these intellectual and political battles emerged key concepts of contemporary environmental science and policy. For a brief interlude, science and industry instilled in us the reassuring illusion of an impassive climate. But, in the age of global warming, we must, once again, confront the chaos in the heavens.
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Chaos in the Heavens
The Forgotten History of Climate Change
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The Forgotten History of Climate Change
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Ten Theses on Climate Change
- 1. Christopher Columbus’s True Discovery
- 2. Improving the World?
- 3. The Climate of History
- 4. The Birth of Historical Climatology
- 5. An Arsenal in the Indian Ocean
- 6. The Climate of Revolution
- 7. Climate Patriotism
- 8. In the Shadow of the Volcano
- 9. Should the National Forests be Sold?
- 10. The Crusades of François-Antoine Rauch
- 11. Circular no. 18: An Inquiry into Climate Change from Two Centuries Ago
- 12. The Power of Forests
- 13. The Horizon Clears
- 14. The Enigmas of the Climatic Past
- 15. Restoring the World, Governing Empires
- 16. The Innocent Carbon of the Nineteenth Century
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Index
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