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Taming the Landscape
When did people begin to take control of the global environment? Humans have shaped their local environments for hundreds of thousands of years. As…
Conquering Time and Space
Industrial revolutions fundamentally transformed the world’s social and economic order. Beginning in Great Britain in the eighteenth century, European…
Consumer Revolutions
Globalization has brought the world to our doorstep. Expanding networks of trade bring goods from every corner of the world to our homes in Omaha.…
Living in a World of Our Own Making
The Anthropocene means “The Age of Humans,” but what does it mean to live in a world of our own making? Humanity has flourished in past two centuries.…