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
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
Neville Brown is a Professorial Associate Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford University; and is attached to the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society.
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The Conceptual Background 1. A Confluence of Disciplines 2. Climate Dynamics 3. Empires and Barbarians 4. Antiquity Melds 5. Northerly Engagement 6. Towards the Optimum (a) The Climate in Temperate Eurasia (b) A Germinal Century 7. The Near East in Crisis 8. How Savage a Culmination? (a) How Cruel a Sea? (b) The Mongol Horde 9. Through the Optimum Une Longue Durée 10. Water, Warmth and Emergent Europe 11. Pointers to a Future (a) The Eurocentric World, 1492-1942 (b) Huntington or Gibbon? (c) A Gibbonesque Era (d) Translation to the Present (e) Persisting Uncertainties
The Conceptual Background 1. A Confluence of Disciplines 2. Climate Dynamics 3. Empires and Barbarians 4. Antiquity Melds 5. Northerly Engagement 6. Towards the Optimum (a) The Climate in Temperate Eurasia (b) A Germinal Century 7. The Near East in Crisis 8. How Savage a Culmination? (a) How Cruel a Sea? (b) The Mongol Horde 9. Through the Optimum Une Longue Durée 10. Water, Warmth and Emergent Europe 11. Pointers to a Future (a) The Eurocentric World, 1492-1942 (b) Huntington or Gibbon? (c) A Gibbonesque Era (d) Translation to the Present (e) Persisting Uncertainties
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