The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

by Dipesh Chakrabarty

Book Overview

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to reconsider--from the changed nature of human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022673286X
• ISBN13: 9780226732862
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"