Chaos in the heavens: the forgotten history of climate change
Politicians and scientists have debated climate change for centuries in times of rapid change 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 act...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Politicians and scientists have debated climate change for centuries in times of rapid change 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. |
| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 276 Seiten Illustrationen, 1 Diagramm, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781839767227 1839767227 |
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| 505 | 8 | |a The furnace of the Carboniferous -- Entering the Holocene -- 15. Restoring the World, Governing Empires -- The Arabs 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 -- Carbon theology -- Regulatory mechanisms -- Precursors of their time -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Index | |
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| contents | Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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 -- The Insular Origins of Collapse -- 6. The Climate of Revolution -- 'Repairing the climate' -- 'Compelling time to release its prey' -- 'The forestry security' -- 'Stop, stop that fatal 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 Centuries Ago The Ministry of the Interior and of the 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 forest 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 Arabs 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 -- Carbon theology -- Regulatory mechanisms -- Precursors of their time -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Index |
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| spelling | Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste Verfasser (DE-588)112860115X aut Chaos in the heavens the forgotten history of climate change Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher ; Translated by Gregory Elliott London ; New York Verso 2024 ix, 276 Seiten Illustrationen, 1 Diagramm, Karten txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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 -- The Insular Origins of Collapse -- 6. The Climate of Revolution -- 'Repairing the climate' -- 'Compelling time to release its prey' -- 'The forestry security' -- 'Stop, stop that fatal 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 Centuries Ago The Ministry of the Interior and of the 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 forest 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 Arabs 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 -- Carbon theology -- Regulatory mechanisms -- Precursors of their time -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Index Politicians and scientists have debated climate change for centuries in times of rapid change 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. Klimaänderung (DE-588)4164199-1 gnd rswk-swf Umweltverschmutzung (DE-588)4186812-2 gnd rswk-swf Erwärmung Meteorologie (DE-588)4344515-9 gnd rswk-swf Kolonisation (DE-588)4128651-0 gnd rswk-swf Meteorologie (DE-588)4038953-4 gnd rswk-swf Imperialismus (DE-588)4026651-5 gnd rswk-swf Umweltwissenschaften (DE-588)4137364-9 gnd rswk-swf Meteorologie (DE-588)4038953-4 s Klimaänderung (DE-588)4164199-1 s Kolonisation (DE-588)4128651-0 s Umweltwissenschaften (DE-588)4137364-9 s Erwärmung Meteorologie (DE-588)4344515-9 s Imperialismus (DE-588)4026651-5 s Umweltverschmutzung (DE-588)4186812-2 s DE-604 Locher, Fabien Verfasser (DE-588)1206106328 aut Elliott, Gregory 1960- (DE-588)137425384 trl Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, US 978-1-83976-724-1 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, UK 978-1-83976-723-4 |
| spellingShingle | Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste Locher, Fabien Chaos in the heavens the forgotten history of climate change Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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 -- The Insular Origins of Collapse -- 6. The Climate of Revolution -- 'Repairing the climate' -- 'Compelling time to release its prey' -- 'The forestry security' -- 'Stop, stop that fatal 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 Centuries Ago The Ministry of the Interior and of the 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 forest 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 Arabs 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 -- Carbon theology -- Regulatory mechanisms -- Precursors of their time -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Index Klimaänderung (DE-588)4164199-1 gnd Umweltverschmutzung (DE-588)4186812-2 gnd Erwärmung Meteorologie (DE-588)4344515-9 gnd Kolonisation (DE-588)4128651-0 gnd Meteorologie (DE-588)4038953-4 gnd Imperialismus (DE-588)4026651-5 gnd Umweltwissenschaften (DE-588)4137364-9 gnd |
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| title_full | Chaos in the heavens the forgotten history of climate change Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher ; Translated by Gregory Elliott |
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