The scientific consensus on the causes of climate change has galvanised global history in the Anthropocene. Within this expanding subfield, however, many historians have afforded imperialism too little explanatory power. This reticence is partly attributable to the intellectual formation of the discipline itself, which long severed human from natural history. It is also due to the paleo-biological scale of climate change and the related propagation of ‘species history’ by Dipesh Chakrabarty. Obscuring global asymmetries in responsibility for climate change, this approach has deflected attention from the intersections of imperialism and environmental degradation. This article surveys the historiography and methodological challenges of climate change, Chakrabarty's influence on Anthropocene scholarship, and critical responses by global historians. It also summarises recent global histories which have closely analysed the interconnections between empire and climate change, indicating a tipping point in global environmental historiography. These studies reveal intimate, necessarily longue durée linkages between the industrialisation, fossil-fuel combustion, and exploitative socio-political structures underpinning both imperialism and climate change.

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人类世帝国和气候的全球历史

关于气候变化原因的科学共识激发了人类世的全球历史。然而，在这个不断扩大的子领域中，许多历史学家给予帝国主义的解释力太少。这种沉默部分归因于学科本身的智力形成，它长期以来将人类与自然史割裂开来。这也是由于气候变化的古生物尺度和 Dipesh Chakrabarty 对“物种历史”的相关传播。这种方法掩盖了全球气候变化责任的不对称性，转移了对帝国主义和环境退化交叉点的注意力。本文调查了气候变化的历史学和方法论挑战，Chakrabarty 对人类世学术的影响，以及全球历史学家的批判性回应。它还总结了最近的全球历史，这些历史密切分析了帝国与气候变化之间的相互联系，表明了全球环境史学的一个转折点。这些研究揭示了亲密的，必然的工业化、化石燃料燃烧和支持帝国主义和气候变化的剥削性社会政治结构之间的长期联系。