A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America

ISBN-13: 9780190055516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Anya Zilberstein

Recenzje

<"Zilberstein's book is a welcome addition to current debates on climate change. By doing painstaking work on varying facets of how colonists and Europeans understood the climate and their ability to change it toward their own ends, Zilberstein has proven these historical actors had climate and humanity's ability to change it near the center of colonialism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Of course, the logic of agricultural improvers, that climate change can be achieved through increasing population and controlling an ever-increasing amount of land in rationalized and prescribed ways, turned out to be the greatest irony for these intellectuals. It may have been a goal to achieve climate change, but it was fundamentally intertwined with colonialism in a fundamental. As it turns out, the improvers were right. Humans can induce climate change.>" Andrew Johnson, Cultures of Energy blog

O autorze

Anya Zilberstein is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University.