ISBN:
9780415019590
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (406 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment
Parallel Title:
Print version History and Climate Change : A Eurocentric Perspective
DDC:
304.2509
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book is a balanced and comprehensive overview of the links between climate and man's advance from pre-history to modern times. It is a synthesis of the many historical and scientific theories regarding man's progress through the ages
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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