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Desert Edens
How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. Uncovering this history, Desert Edens looks at how arid environments and an increasing anxiety about climate in the colonial world shaped this upsurge in ideas about climate engineering. From notions about the transformation of deserts into forests to Nazi plans to influence the climates of war-torn areas, Philipp Lehmann puts the early climate change de...
The Earth That Modernism Built
An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis. The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of analysis. Rather than describing how new design ideas and practices traveled and transformed people and places across the globe, this book interrogates the politics of life and earth underpinning this process. It demonstrates how approaches to modern housing, landscape design, and infrastructure planning ar...
Slavernes kyst
Første del af trilogien, som også omfatter Slavernes skibe og Slavernes øer og kan læses uafhængigt af hinanden. Det er Thorkild Hansens store fortælling om den danske handel med slaver fra Guineakysten, og her viser han sin fortælleevne med et stof, der er mere farverigt og fantastisk end nogen fiktion. Trilogien har været tildelt Nordisk Råds litteraturpris.
