History and climate change [[electronic resource] ] : a Eurocentric perspective / / Neville Brown
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Brown Neville
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| Titolo: |
History and climate change [[electronic resource] ] : a Eurocentric perspective / / Neville Brown
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Routledge, 2001 |
| 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 |
| 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: | 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-280-11230-1 |
| 9786610112302 | |
| 0-203-99568-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910449812403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge studies in physical geography and environment ; ; 3.