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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449812403321

Autore

Brown Neville

Titolo

History and climate change [[electronic resource] ] : a Eurocentric perspective / / Neville Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2001

ISBN

1-280-11230-1

9786610112302

0-203-99568-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in physical geography and environment ; ; 3

Disciplina

551.694

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Europe - History

Climatic changes - Social aspects - Europe

Human geography - Europe

Human beings - Effect of climate on - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Europe Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 A confluence of disciplines; 2 Climate dynamics; 3 Empires and barbarians; 4 Antiquity melds; 5 Northerly engagement; 6 Towards the optimum; 7 The Near East in crisis; 8 How savage a culmination?; 9 Through the optimum; 10 Water, warmth and emergent Europe; 11 Pointers to a future; Appendix A: Assessing past climates; Appendix B: An outline chronology, 211-1350; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

History and Climate Change is a balanced and comprehensive overview of the links between climate and man's advance from early to modern times. It draws upon demographic, economic, urban, religious and military perspectives. It is a synthesis of the many historical and scientific theories, which have arisen regarding man's progress through the ages.Central to the book is the question of whether climate variation is a fundamental trigger mechanism from which other historical sequences develop, or one amongst a number of other factors, decisive only when a regime/society is poised fo