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History and climate change : a Eurocentric perspective / / Neville Brown



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Autore: Brown Neville Visualizza persona
Titolo: History and climate change : a Eurocentric perspective / / Neville Brown Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
Disciplina: 551.694
Soggetto topico: Climatic changes - Europe - History
Climatic changes - Social aspects - Europe
Human geography - Europe
Human beings - Effect of climate on - Europe - History
Soggetto geografico: Europe Civilization
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
Titolo autorizzato: History and climate change  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-134-97758-1
1-280-11230-1
9786610112302
0-203-99568-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823925003321
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Serie: Routledge studies in physical geography and environment ; ; 3.