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041 1 _aeng
082 0 0 _a551.609 FRE/C
100 1 _aFressoz, Jean-Baptiste,
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240 1 0 _aRévoltes du ciel.
245 1 0 _aChaos in the heavens :
_ba history of climate change from the fifteenth to the twentieth century /
_cJean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher ; translated by Gregory Elliott.
260 _a. - London
_b: Verso
_c,2024
300 _a1 online resource
500 _a"Translation based on the revised French edition of Les révoltes du ciel : une histoire du changement climatique (xve-xxe siècle)."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : ten theses on climate change -- Christopher Columbus's true discovery -- Improving the world? -- The climate of history -- The birth of historical climatology -- An arsenal in the Indian Ocean -- The climate of the revolution -- Climate patriotism -- In the shadow of the volcano -- Should the national forests be sold? -- The crusades of François-Antoine Rauch -- Circular no. 18 : an inquiry into climate change from two -- The power of forests -- The horizon clears -- The enigmas of the climatic past -- Restoring the world, governing empires -- The innocent carbon of the nineteenth century.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aClimatic changes
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650 0 _aEcology
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650 0 _aGlobal warming
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700 1 _aLocher, Fabien,
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700 1 _aElliott, Gregory,
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