Reinhold Leinfelder on “The Anthropocene”
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.
Reinhold Leinfelder, Affiliated Carson Professor as of 2012, speaks about his research concerning the Anthropocene.
This article argues that a paradigm change in political anthropology might be reasonable and realistic as a way of establishing dams against human self-destruction in the Anthropocene.
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
Steam power became the energy source for many machines and vehicles, making it cheaper and easier to produce commodities in large amounts.
In the eighteenth century, cheap raw materials from the Americas and other emerging markets drove European world trade. The transatlantic triangular trade between Europe, Africa and America was established.
The invention of the spinning jenny in 1764 sparked a movement that would change the lives of people worldwide: the rapid mechanization of the textile industry spurred a period of economic growth.
This special issue focuses on connected histories of science, technology and socio-ecological change in what the editors call the “postcolonial Anthropocene.”