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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,…mehr
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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Autorenporträt
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science and technology, previously at Imperial College London, now based in Paris at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is the author of The Happy Apocalypse (forthcoming) and The Shock of the Anthropocene (with C. Bonneuil).
Fabien Locher is a historian of science, technology and environment at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of Le Savant et la Temp¿te. Etudier l'atmosph¿re et pr¿voir le temps au XIXe si¿cle.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Ten Theses on Climate Change 1 Christopher Columbus’s True Discovery ‘The trees produce clouds and rain’ The sacred tree of El Hierro Slavery in a temperate zone 2 Improving the World? Colonial propaganda ‘Cosmical suspicions’ The sacred tree and the global water cycle 3 The Climate of History Why did the Romans decline? The climatic history of the European peoples Ranking Nations Countering the encroaching cold 4 The Birth of Historical Climatology Meteorologists tackle the past The pitfalls of historical thermometry The sources of historical climatology 5 An Arsenal in the Indian Ocean A nature for war Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, or an unconditional eulogy of trees An energy crisis 6 The Climate of the Revolution ‘Repairing the climate’ ‘Compelling the weather to release its prey’ ‘The forestry security’ ‘Stop, stop that lethal axe’ Napoleon and the water cycle 7 Climate Patriotism The climate of independence The climate of improvement 8 In the Shadow of the Volcano A planetary catastrophe A providential debacle Reassuring glaciers A climate of laissez-faire 9 Should the National Forests be Sold? Forests, debt, and climate ‘The torch of reason in our sacred woods’ The Revolution’s environmental legacy 10 The Crusades of François-Antoine Rauch Rauch’s vision: a material, global and divine harmony Babylon, or the ruins of the future The bad business of the climate 11 Circular no. 18: An Inquiry into Climate Change from Two The Ministry of the Interior and of Climate Deciphering change Pointers, evidence, and testimony Scales of change The forests and climates of the globe Forgetting the inquiry 12 The Power of Forests An affront to property Forestry externalities Playing on uncertainty Return to Tacarigua 13 The Horizon Clears Repairing France: from the sky to the ground The slow eclipse of the forestry issue The end of the agricultural ancien régime 14 The Enigmas of the Climatic Past The labyrinth of change The new climate sciences The furnace of the Carboniferous Entering the Holocene 15 Restoring the World, Governing Empires The Arab and the climate Threats to the Raj The frontier climate From the Sahara to the Namib A planet of deserts 16 The Innocent Carbon of the Nineteenth Century The theology of carbon Regulatory mechanisms Precursors of their time Conclusion Afterword Index
Introduction: Ten Theses on Climate Change 1 Christopher Columbus’s True Discovery ‘The trees produce clouds and rain’ The sacred tree of El Hierro Slavery in a temperate zone 2 Improving the World? Colonial propaganda ‘Cosmical suspicions’ The sacred tree and the global water cycle 3 The Climate of History Why did the Romans decline? The climatic history of the European peoples Ranking Nations Countering the encroaching cold 4 The Birth of Historical Climatology Meteorologists tackle the past The pitfalls of historical thermometry The sources of historical climatology 5 An Arsenal in the Indian Ocean A nature for war Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, or an unconditional eulogy of trees An energy crisis 6 The Climate of the Revolution ‘Repairing the climate’ ‘Compelling the weather to release its prey’ ‘The forestry security’ ‘Stop, stop that lethal axe’ Napoleon and the water cycle 7 Climate Patriotism The climate of independence The climate of improvement 8 In the Shadow of the Volcano A planetary catastrophe A providential debacle Reassuring glaciers A climate of laissez-faire 9 Should the National Forests be Sold? Forests, debt, and climate ‘The torch of reason in our sacred woods’ The Revolution’s environmental legacy 10 The Crusades of François-Antoine Rauch Rauch’s vision: a material, global and divine harmony Babylon, or the ruins of the future The bad business of the climate 11 Circular no. 18: An Inquiry into Climate Change from Two The Ministry of the Interior and of Climate Deciphering change Pointers, evidence, and testimony Scales of change The forests and climates of the globe Forgetting the inquiry 12 The Power of Forests An affront to property Forestry externalities Playing on uncertainty Return to Tacarigua 13 The Horizon Clears Repairing France: from the sky to the ground The slow eclipse of the forestry issue The end of the agricultural ancien régime 14 The Enigmas of the Climatic Past The labyrinth of change The new climate sciences The furnace of the Carboniferous Entering the Holocene 15 Restoring the World, Governing Empires The Arab and the climate Threats to the Raj The frontier climate From the Sahara to the Namib A planet of deserts 16 The Innocent Carbon of the Nineteenth Century The theology of carbon Regulatory mechanisms Precursors of their time Conclusion Afterword Index
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