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The Past Is A Foreign Country: The Australian Middle Ages, Louise D'Arcens
The Past Is A Foreign Country: The Australian Middle Ages, Louise D'Arcens
Louise D'Arcens
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Book Review Of "Past Meets Present: Archaeologists Partnering With Museum Curators, Teachers, And Community Groups" Edited By John H. Jameson, Jr. And Sherene Baugher, Lynn Evans
Northeast Historical Archaeology
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The Crisis Of Petro-Market Civilization: The Past As Prologue?, Timothy Dimuzio
The Crisis Of Petro-Market Civilization: The Past As Prologue?, Timothy Dimuzio
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Summary Current patterns of high-energy intensive development are not sustainable on account of two major challenges that threaten the social reproduction of this civilization: peak oil and global warming. This chapter seeks to probe the dimensions of this looming crisis at the heart of 'petro-market civilization' by foregrounding the links between energy and social reproduction. In doing so, the chapter makes two interrelated arguments. First, I argue not only that the age of fossil fuels is an exceptional one but also that the discovery and use of fossil fuels have been crucial to the deepening and extension of an incipient …