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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 379–380.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Scot McFarlane The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability . By Carolyn Merchant . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2020 . 232 pp., $26.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-24423-6. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book Reviews...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 96–97.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Ryan Adams Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests . By Nicholas C. Kawa . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . 202 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4773-0844-8 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 413–426.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present . New York : Liveright , 2019 . Bonneuil Christophe , and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz . The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us . London : Verso Books , 2016 . Brazdil Rudolf , Pfister...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 643–648.
Published: 01 November 2023
... . “ Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin .” Environmental Humanities 6 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 159 – 65 . https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3615934 . Hariot Thomas . A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia . 1871; electronic edition, Documenting...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 444–484.
Published: 01 July 2020
... crisis and the rise of the Anthropocene, and soon after we formally began, Australia began to burn on an unprecedented scale. So we were already talking about animal history with a sense of urgency about the present when news of a novel coronavirus began to spread. Before we knew it, the world was locked...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 156–158.
Published: 01 January 2020
... fluctuations that articulate the agrarian calendar. The Lived Nile is thus, fundamentally, a historical explo- Book Reviews 157 ration of one of the stories that made the Anthropocene. The book s five chapters follow a chronological order. Chapter One focus- es on the construction of the perennial Nile during...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 176–204.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Andrea E. Duffy Abstract This article explores human responses to the climatic conditions of the late Little Ice Age (1850–1880s) in the Mediterranean world. Around the globe, the nineteenth century heralded the retreat of the Little Ice Age (LIA) and the arrival of the Anthropocene. Although...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 386–412.
Published: 01 July 2020
...: Cambridge University Press, 2010). See also Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, “The Industrial Revolution in the Anthropocene,”Journal of Modern History 84, no. 3 (Sept. 2012): 679-96. For an alternate account, see Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (London...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 223–224.
Published: 01 May 2022
... to their intellectual heroes—Marx! Foucault!—that fervor seems to have shifted to catchy conceptual slogans. Anthropocene! Spatial Turn! New Materialism! Buzzwords dot conference papers and grant proposals, they ooze cognitive certainty, and those who chronicle our academic trajectory a few decades from now will surely...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (3): 429–430.
Published: 01 July 2016
...-animal interactions in the Anthropocene, tracing human ambivalence about animals in the Galapagos, colonial West Africa, and the Appalachian Mountains. The volume concludes with three essays Documenting Interspecific Partnerships that address nineteenth-century New York as an anthrozootic city, look...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 696–698.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to the most ethnographically strong representations of matsutake in the Anthropocene. Indeed, the methodological challenge of such research is one that displays the limitations anthropologists face in accessing the nonhuman realms of world-making, should they exist. Situated in an anthropology beyond...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 January 2015
... Anthropocene premature, although he recognizes a gigantic human impact on the biosphere. He recommends a program of rational and economical management of the biosphere and is hopeful that humankind can keep its appetite for biomass to twice what it is today. J. R. McNeill Georgetown University 123 ...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 465–466.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of the human imagination of trees. here is the rub: california has more trees today than it did two to five million years ago during the pliocene era. not surprisingly, in the era informally labeled by geologists as the Anthropocene (the age of humans), california s biological diversity (not just demographic...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 476–478.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Society 2022 The Anthropocene—with its changing climate, rising sea levels, and deteriorating glaciers—has been accompanied by a rising interest in the wilds of the world. People are flocking to the outdoors. High places in particular are valuable commodities, now overrun by tourists in Sprinter vans...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (1): 127–128.
Published: 01 January 2018
... to situate young Washington at the beginning of the Anthropocene. Less a historical narrative than a series of interconnected essays, Levy s book aims to explore the connections between Washington and this particular plot of land (20). Those connections are few, and Levy admits that he is looking...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (3): 568–570.
Published: 01 July 2021
... refers to as tricky conceptual questions that must be confronted , including definitions of nature, the environment, and the Anthropocene (1). In the process, readers are provided with a brief but instructive overview of environmental historiography, followed by an introduction to the volume itself...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 97–99.
Published: 01 January 2017
... (2015), it is part of a promising trend in recent studies of the Amazon to move beyond the past conflicts between scientific human ecology and ideational social theory approaches. Amazonia in the Anthropocene is ethnographic in both methodology and tone. Kawa has remarkable self-awareness and a richly...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (4): 601–603.
Published: 01 October 2017
... that the destructive overflow of the Mississippi is a characteristic of the Anthropocene epoch, a term used by scientific communities to describe the permanent alteration of the natural environment by the interference of society. Because of this interference, we now live in a second nature, one created by engineers...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 158–160.
Published: 01 January 2020
... of an eternal Nilotic landscape remains too often still a convenient (whether conscious or not) posture. By deconstructing these romantic musings, Derr forces the reader to mull over the Anthropocenic weight of modern history from below, both literally and figuratively. Katherine Blouin University of Toronto...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 466–468.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... At heart, this is a cultural history of the human imagination of trees. here is the rub: california has more trees today than it did two to five million years ago during the pliocene era. not surprisingly, in the era informally labeled by geologists as the Anthropocene (the age of humans), california s...
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