TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brooke,John L.
TI  - Climate change and the course of global history: a rough journey 
T2  - Studies in environment and history
SN  - 9781139050814 (ebook)
AV  - QC903 .B76 2014
U1  - 304.2/709 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - History
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Effect of climate on
KW  - World history
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - Climate Change and the Course of Global History 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. Part III introduces the problem of economic growth and examines the human condition in the Late Holocene from the Bronze Age through the Black Death. Part IV explores the move to modernity, stressing the emerging role of human economic and energy systems as earth-system agents in the Anthropocene. Supported by climatic, demographic, and economic data, this provides a pathbreaking model for historians of the environment, the world, and science
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139050814
ER  -