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February 01 2018
Geological Semantics and the Naming of the Anthropocene
Clive Hamilton.
Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene
. Cambridge, UK
: Polity Press
, 2017
. xiv + 185 pp., index. ISBN 978-1-5095-1975-0. $19.95 (paper).Bruno Latour.
Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
, trans. by Catherine Porter. Cambridge, UK
: Polity Press
, 2017
. 327 pp., index. ISBN 978-0-7456-8434-5. $26.95 (paper).Jamie Lorimer.
Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature
. Minneapolis
: The University of Minnesota Press
, 2015
. 284 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0-8166-8108-2. $25 (paper).J. R. McNeill and Peter Engelke.
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene
. Cambridge, MA
: Harvard University Press
, 2015
. 275 pp., illus., index. ISBN 978-0674545038. $19.95 (paper).Jason W. Moore.
Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
. London
: Verso
, 2015
. 316 pp., index. ISBN 978-1-7816-8902-8. $29.95 (paper).Oswald J. Schmitz.
The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene
. Princeton, NJ
: Princeton University Press
, 2017
. xiii + 236 pp., index. ISBN 978-0-6911-6056-6. $35 (hardcover).
Will Wright
Will Wright
Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59717; will.wright@montana.edu
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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2018) 48 (1): 110–122.
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Will Wright; Geological Semantics and the Naming of the Anthropocene. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 1 February 2018; 48 (1): 110–122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2018.48.1.110
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