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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:51:25 UT
From: Mark Levene <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Mark Levene <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Publication: History at the End of the World?
To: [log in to unmask]
Apologies for cross-posting
I thought you might like to have advance warning for the soon-to-be published
title :
History at the End of the World?
History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure
Edited by Mark Levene, Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts
History at the End of the World? will be officially published on 15 April 2010
and is available in paperback via Troubador:
http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=1150
and in e-version direct from Humanities Ebooks:
http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk/Catalogue/History_at_the_End_of_the_World.html
See the flyer:
http://rescue-history-from-climate-change.org/PDFs/HistoryAtTheEnd.pdf
The collection has been produced under the auspices of Rescue!History
http://www.rescue-history.org.uk/
(the sister network to Crisis Forum: http://www.crisis-forum.org.uk ).
Please pass on the flyer and details to all friends, colleagues, students,
fellow activists etc.
This first Rescue!History collection has been consciously put together for a
broad, educated audience, though especially angled at students who want to get
to grips with why humanity has arrived at its present all-encompassing crisis.
By the same token the collection poses whether recent as well as deeper
historical experience may offers signposts to our future survival and
well-being against the grain of a relentless 'business as usual' drive towards
the abyss.
Any further queries please feel free to contact me
mark
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History at the End of the World?
Contents
Introduction: A Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
Mark Levene
Part 1: Deep History
1. Responding to Climate Change: Lessons from our Prehistoric Ancestors
Kate Prendergast
Part II: Harbingers of the End
2. We'll Cope, Mankind always has: The Fall of Rome and the Cost of Crisis
Bryan Ward-Perkins
3. People, Climate and Landscape in Medieval Iceland
Chris Callow
4. The Wrath of God: Explanations of Crisis and Natural Disaster in pre-modern
Europe
Elaine Fulton and Penny Roberts
Part III: The Debate about the Enlightenment and Modernity
5. The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution
Nicholas Maxwell
6. Dangerous Limits: Climate Change and Modernity
Chris Shaw
Part IV: Coming to Terms with a Recent Historical Legacy
7. Five Lessons for the Climate Crisis: What the History of Resource Scarcity in
the United States and Japan can teach us
Roman Krznaric
8. ‘We are All Slave Owners Now¸: Fossil Fuels, Energy Consumption and the
Legacy of Slave Abolition
Jean-Francois Mouhot
Part V: Countdown to Self-Annihilation
9. Climate Change, Resources and Future War: The Case of Central Asia
Rob Johnson
10. On the Edge of History, The Nuclear Dimension
Dave Webb
Part VI: Surviving Catastrophe: Creating Conditions for Renewal
11. On Reading History as a Mental Health Issue
Jonathan Coope
12. A Zoroastrian Dilemma? Parsi Responses to Global Catastrophe
Tehmina Goskar
13. How Novels can contribute to our Understanding of Climate Change
Peter Middleton
14. Towards Transition
Robert Biel
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