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The Banality of the Anthropocene - Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us, transl. by David Fernbach (New York, NY, Verso Books, 2015)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2019

Justin Mcbrien*
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University of Virginia [jdm8fc@virginia.edu]
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