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

by John L. Brooke

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521692180
• ISBN13: 9780521692182
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"