History 4° Celsius
Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene
1st Edition
Published on 24. July 2020
150 pages
978-1-4780-1203-0 (ISBN)
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Ian Baucom puts black studies into conversation with climate change, outlining how the ongoing concerns of critical race, diaspora, and postcolonial studies are crucial to understanding the Anthropocene and vice versa.
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Ian Baucom is Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History and coeditor of Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, both also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
1. Of Forces and Forcings 1
2. History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method 35
3. The View from the Shore 73
Coda. The Youngest Day 110
Notes 119
Bibliography 131
Index 137
1. Of Forces and Forcings 1
2. History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method 35
3. The View from the Shore 73
Coda. The Youngest Day 110
Notes 119
Bibliography 131
Index 137
