Climate Change and the Course of Global History A Rough Journey

Name: Climate Change and the Course of Global History A Rough Journey
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ISBN: 9780521692182

ISBN-10: 0521692180

ISBN-13: 9780521692182

Edition: 2014

Authors: John L. Brooke

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A Rough Journey presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological and human evolution. Part II explores the environmental circumstances of the rise of agriculture and the state in the Early and Mid-Holocene, and presents an analysis of human health from the Paleolithic through the rise of the state, including the Neolithic Demographic Transition. Part III introduces the problem of economic growth and examines the human condition in the Late Holocene from the Bronze Age through…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/17/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 648
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

John L. Brooke is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He has won the Bancroft Prize for The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844.