This work is both a family history and a social history of Sco… - 01:04:01 on This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and p… - 01:04:01 on Īvailable Now! Classical Edinburgh - A City Divided. Out Now! Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science. Our author Jessica Volz's book Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, and Burney has been in the… - 01:04:01 on Īvailable Now! An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive ra… - 01:04:01 on Jorge Heine will be participating in a round table discussion in Pretoria, South Africa, on "the new… - 01:04:01 on Thatcher, University of Ulster Author Information This is engaged history from an outstanding historian an absolute must read.' -Professor Ian D. 'Professor Dukes’ unique capacity for global analysis across centuries has with penetrating brilliance examined the topic of our times, the roots of the ecological crisis. The world is “ours” in a way that it has never been before, and we can thank Paul Dukes for telling us so, and suggesting what new responsibilities this “ownership” entails.' -Professor Marshall Poe, University of Iowa 'Paul Dukes has written a significant book, arguing that we live in a new geological age, one that was and continues to be shaped in the most profound way by humankind. Dukes’ grand tour – from the tentative experiments of James Watt to nuclear twilight and climate catastrophe – starkly reminds us how quickly we have come to the edge of our own anthropogenic abyss.' -Dr Mark Levene, University of Southampton 'At last, a historian with the courage and vision to shake us out of our postmodernist torpor. It should be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the contemporary world and the role of history.' -Dr Murray Frame, University of Dundee '‘Minutes to Midnight’ is a profoundly erudite and original work, formidable in intellectual scope and bristling with insight. Indispensable for students of historiography and historical methodology. ‘The clarity of Dukes’s contentions, coupled with his crystalline writing style, allows readers to grasp the multifaceted points with thought-provoking ease. Our present predicament demands a rigorous examination of its origins and an assertion of a scientific pandisciplinary approach involving history and other academic specialisations. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as the industrial revolution unfolded in several stages, nationalism, imperialism and totalitarianism were among the phenomena impeding the update of the Enlightenment programme as well as the fulfilment of the aspirations of 17. This book aims at an analysis of the evolution of our present predicament throughout the Anthropocene Era beginning in 1763, making special reference to the history of the period, the study of the subject and major advances in the natural sciences.Īdam Smith and Adam Ferguson set out the basis for a scientific approach to the pre-industrial stages of historical development in the Enlightenment of the late eighteenth century, when the American and French Revolutions created a vocabulary of modernity. In 2007 it was set at five minutes before the final bell, including for the first time the threat of climate change as well as new developments in the life sciences and nanotechnology. The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947 by a group of atomic scientists to symbolise the perils facing humanity from nuclear weapons.
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