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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299399703321

Titolo

Famines During the ʻLittle Ice Ageʼ (1300-1800) : Socionatural Entanglements in Premodern Societies / / edited by Dominik Collet, Maximilian Schuh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-54337-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations, graphs

Disciplina

363.809

Soggetti

Climatic changes

History

Climate Change

History, general

Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

This highly interdisciplinary book studies historical famines as an interface of nature and culture. It will bring together researchers from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. With reference to recent interdisciplinary concepts (disaster studies, vulnerability studies, environmental history) it will examine, how the dominant opposition of natural and cultural factors can be overcome. Such an integrated approach includes the "archives of nature" as well as "archives of man". It challenges deterministic models of human-environment interaction and replaces them with a dynamic, historicising approach. As a result it provides a fresh perspective on the entanglement of climate and culture in past societies.