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Autore |
Brown Neville |
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Titolo |
History and climate change [[electronic resource] ] : a Eurocentric perspective / / Neville Brown |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London, : Routledge, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-97758-1 |
1-280-11230-1 |
9786610112302 |
0-203-99568-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (406 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in physical geography and environment ; ; 3 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Climatic changes - Europe - History |
Climatic changes - Social aspects - Europe |
Human geography - Europe |
Human beings - Effect of climate on - Europe - History |
Europe Civilization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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