Julia Adeney Thomas

Dr. Julia Adeney Thomas

Associate Professor of Modern History, Environmental History and Historiography, University of Notre Dame.

e-mail: thomasjna@aol.com

Some recent publications

The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Polity Press.

Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right. Duke University Press.

Rethinking Historical Distance. Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.

Texts to download

“Introduction: A Portable Concept of Fascism”, in J. A. Thomas & G. Eley, eds. Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right. Duke University Press, pp. 1-20.

“The Blame Game: Asia, Democracy, and Covid-19”. AsiaGlobal Online, 25 March 2020.

“Introduction: Amitav Ghosh among the Asianists” & “Asia in the Anthropocene: The Problem of Representation”. [JAS Round Table on Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable]. Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 929-955.

 “History and Biology in the Anthropocene: Problems of Scale, Problems of Value”The American Historical Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1587-1607.

“Reclaiming Ground: Japan’s Great Convergence”Japanese Studies Association of Australia, pp. 1-11.

“Comment: Not Yet Far Enough”American Historical Review, Vol. 117, No. 3, pp. 794-803.

“The Evidence of Sight”History and Theory, Theme Issue 48, pp. 151-168.

“Power Made Visible: Photography and Postwar Japan’s Elusive Reality”The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 365-394.

“The Cage of Nature: Modernity’s History in Japan”History and Theory, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 16-36.