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Carolyn Merchant
Description: The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of...
The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability
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Carolyn Merchant
PublisherYale University Press
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Introduction
Figure I.3. The Holocene: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, http://www.igbp.net/globalchange/anthropocene.4.1b8ae20512db692f2a680009238.html. Public domain.
Figure I.4. Global temperature change, 1880–2010: “Global Warming and the Climate,” http://www.global-warming-and-the-climate.com/greenhouse-warming-argument.html. Public domain.
Figure I.5. The Human Footprint: from Jessica Stites, “The Dawning of the Age of the Anthropocene,” In These Times (Apr. 14, 2014): 1, chart designed by Rachel K. Dooley, from “The Dawning of the Age of the Anthropocene,” In These Times, copyright 2014, used by permission.
Figure I.6. Environmental Protection Agency’s projected atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, 2000–2100: https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-change-science/future-climate-change_.html. Public domain.
Figure I.8. IGBP, the Great Acceleration: courtesy of Will Steffen.
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1. Newcomen engine: Courtesy of Joseph Siry. Public domain.
Figure 1.2. James Watt: Public domain.
Figure 1.3. James Watt steam engine: Deutsches Museum, Munich.
Figure 1.8. William Rankine: Public domain.
Chapter 2
Figure 2.2. Stationary steam engine: Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0.
Figure 2.3. Joseph Turner: Tate Gallery, London. Public domain.
Figure 2.4. Joseph Turner, Fighting Temeraire Being Tugged to Her Last Berth, 1838: National Gallery, London. Public domain.
Figure 2.5. Claude Monet, Arrival of the Normandy Train, 1877: Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, ref. no. 1933.1158, https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16571/arrival-of-the-normandy-train-gare-saint-lazare, https://www.artic.edu/image-licensing. Public domain.
Figure 2.9. Andrew Melrose, Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way, 1867: Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, Jane Cazneau Archive, https://janecazneau.omeka.net/items/show/16. Public domain.
Figure 2.10. John Gast, American Progress, 1872: Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles. Public domain.
Figure 2.11. John Kane, The Monongahela River Valley, Pennsylvania, 1931. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image Source: Art Resource, NY.
Figure 2.15. Olafur Eliasson, Your Mobile Expectations: BMW H2R Project, 2007, On behalf of Olafur Eliasson; © Olafur Eliasson, used by permission.
Chapter 3
Figure 3.3. Charles Dickens: © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Figure 3.4. Nathaniel Hawthorne: Charles Osgood (American, 1809–1890). Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1840. Oil on canvas. Salem, Massachusetts, United States. 29½ × 24½ inches (74.93 × 62.23 cm). Peabody Essex Museum, Gift of Professor Richard C. Manning, 1933. 121459. Courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum. Photo by Mark Sexton.
Chapter 5
Figure 5.6. Plato and Aristotle: Public domain, United States.
Figure 5.12. Isaac Newton (1642–1727): Godfrey Kneller, 1689. Public domain, United States.
Chapter 6
Figure 6.7. Warren County protest: image by Jerome Friar, 1982, in the Jerome Friar Photographic Collection and Related Materials (P0090), North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill.
Figure 6.8. Protest over proposed sewage plant: David Vita, used by permission.
Epilogue
Figure E.3. Ecological Revolutions diagram: Carolyn Merchant, “The Theoretical Structure of Ecological Revolutions,” Environmental Review 11, no. 4 (Winter 1987): 268.
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