Chaos in the heavens a history of climate change from the fifteenth to the twentieth century

"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 acceler...

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Other Authors: Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste, autor (autor), Locher, Fabien, autor (traductor), Elliott, Gregory, 1960- traductor
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Verso 2024.
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Summary:"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"--
Item Description:"Traducción basada en la edición francesa revisada de: Les révoltes du ciel : une histoire du changement climatique (xve-xxe siècle)."
Physical Description:IX, 276 páginas ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
ISBN:9781839767227