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ISBN 10: 0415755050
ISBN 13: 9780415755054
Author: Neville Brown
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 for change. Evidence for prolonged climate change is not that extensive. But it is clear that climatic variation has regularly played a part in historical development. Paricular attention is here paid to Europe since AD 211. Cold and warmth, wetness and aridity can create contrary reactions within societies, which can be interpreted in vary different ways by scholars from differenct disciplines. Does climate change exacerbate famine and epidemics? Did climate fluctuation play a part in pivotal historical events such as the mass exodus of Hsuing-nu from China, the pressure of the Huns on the Romans and the genesis of the Crusades? Did the bitter Finnish winter of 1939-40 ensure the ultimate defeat of Hitler? These episodes, and many others are discussed throughout the book in the authors distinctive style, with maps and photographs to illustrate the examples given.
History and Climate Change A Eurocentric Perspective 1st Table of contents:
Part 1: The conceptual background
1 A confluence of disciplines
2 Climate dynamics
Part 2: Late Antiquity to Renaissance foreglow, AD 211 to 1350
3 Empires and barbarians
4 Antiquity melds
5 Northerly engagement
6 Towards the optimum
The Climate in Temperate Eurasia
A Germinal Century
7 The Near East in crisis
8 How savage a culmination?
How Cruel a Sea?
The Mongol Horde
9 Through the optimum
Part 3: Une longue durée
10 Water, warmth and emergent Europe
11 Pointers to a future
The Eurocentric World, 1492–1942
Huntington or Gibbon?
A Gibbonesque Era
Translation to the Present
Persisting Uncertainties
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