Titlebook: Many Possible Worlds; An Interdisciplinary Cameron Gordon Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licens

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,Understanding the “Anthropocene”,ery, Fuller’s vision was the most deeply elaborated, putting forth a story about the human race travelling throughout space on a vessel called “Earth”. This was one of number of analytical strains that ultimately coalesced into a characterisation of the past few centuries as the “Anthropocene” in re

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Self, Socialisation, Organisation, Culture,99, when a French envoy to Berlin wrote that his country had entered upon one (Landes in . (2nd ed.). Westview Press, 1999). Its meaning in this context was a rapid advance in just one industry in one place in one time. For a long while after that, contemporaries used the phrase in this relatively l

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,“Revolution”,n act of violence by which one class overthrows another” (Mao Mao, Z. (1967). Quotations from chairman Mao Tse-tung (2nd ed.). Foreign Languages Press., 11). The musician Gil Scott Heron sang “the revolution will not be televised” in a song of the same name on his 1971 . album (Flying Dutchman/RCA).

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,“1870”, anything for sale. Instead the Exhibition was designed to celebrate industrial technology in and of itself, and all the modern material achievements it had wrought. By 1870, the Second Industrial Revolution had begun and this material progress and invention would vastly accelerate throughout Europe

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,La Belle Époque,ch history, but more generally denoting a sort of Indian Summer of European ascendancy in culture, society and economy. Starting in 1870 (1880, 1890 and even 1900 are alternative initial demarcations), it ended definitively in 1914 with the start of the First World War. It was a far from easy time t

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,“1900”, least in the rapidly growing rich corner of it, would have been almost unrecognisable if someone from 1800 had been suddenly transported to 1900. The data on per capita GDP, total GDP and shares of world GDP by major global regions show a strong “Great Divergence” between the industrialising core n

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