Climate and political climate [[electronic resource] ] : environmental disasters in the Medieval Levant / / by Sarah Kate Raphael
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Raphael Kate
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| Titolo: |
Climate and political climate [[electronic resource] ] : environmental disasters in the Medieval Levant / / by Sarah Kate Raphael
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden, : Brill, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 551.695609/02 |
| Soggetto topico: | Climatic changes - Middle East - History - To 1500 |
| Climatic changes - Social aspects - Middle East | |
| Climate and civilization - Middle East | |
| Nature - Effect of human beings on - Middle East - History | |
| Paleoclimatology - Middle East | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Middle East Climate History |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Droughts and famines -- pt. 2. Earthquakes and the politics of mass destruction -- pt. 3. Small and destructive enemies -- pt. 4. Dearth, crisis and violence. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the Levant saw a substantial rise in the number of droughts. This coincided with some of the most violent tectonic activity the region had witnessed. Nature, however, could conjure other powerful disasters: swarms of locusts, armies of mice, scorching winds and thick dust storms. The data for this research is drawn from contemporary Arabic and Latin sources. The main aim is to try and determine the long and short-term repercussions of environmental disasters on the political, military and social affairs in the Levant during the Crusader, Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Did environmental disasters spur or hinder conflict? This research examines the most destructive disasters and gradual climate changes within a broader historical context. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Climate and political climate |
| ISBN: | 90-04-24473-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463192903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Brill's Series in the History of the Environment ; 3.