Anthropocene 106: Infrastructure and Empire

Reading List:

·       Belich, James “Exploding Wests” in Diamond, Jared M., and James A. Robinson, eds. 2010. Natural Experiments of History. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

·       Stanley, Amy. 2016. “Maidservants’ Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1600–1900Maidservants’ Tales.” The American Historical Review 121 (2): 437–60.

·       Headrick, Daniel R. 1988. The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940. New York: Oxford University Press.

·       Ross, Corey. 2017. Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World. First edition. Oxford ; New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Anthropocene 107: Inequality and Climate Change

Anthropocene 105: Consuming Things, Bird Hats, Railroads, Restaurants