This reflective piece asks whether there is a particular Australian connection to recent discussion of an Anthropocene. Australian historians are perhaps predisposed to ‘deep time’; at the very least they are more accustomed to thinking about great time-scales than historians writing from and about other national history traditions.
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Alison Bashford (2013) studied this question.
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