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

• Autore: Brown Neville
• 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
• 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: 1-134-97758-1; 1-280-11230-1; 9786610112302; 0-203-99568-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777079103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in physical geography and environment ; ; 3.