The Anthropocene Household in the Long Eighteenth Century
Recent scholarship has highlighted the relationship of the British empire to the environment, examining shifts in energy economies, forest management, land transformation, racial capitalism, and imperial extraction. Histories of empire has also shown how these processes transformed the lived experience of families in Britian and throughout its empire. This presentation brings together histories of family and empire, putting them in dialogue with environmental history scholarship. It proposes that the “Anthropocene household” is a productive framework for examining the intersection of environmental change, family, and empire in the long eighteenth century.
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The British Studies Seminar brings together scholars to discuss work that addresses the history of Britain and the British Empire from the early modern period to present day. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Graduate Cluster in British Studies at Northwestern, Northwestern History, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies at the University of Chicago.