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A Cultural History of Climate Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Wolfgang Behringer
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- Title A Cultural History of Climate
- Author Wolfgang Behringer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press
- Date 2009
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0745645291I3N10
- ISBN 9780745645292 / 0745645291
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Global warming, Climatic changes - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 304.25
From the rear cover
Wolfgang Behringer introduces us to the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate; he shows what may today be considered secure knowledge, which changes have taken place in the past, and how they hindered or promoted the advance of Homo sapiens. The book first offers some elements of scientific orientation, then examines in greater detail the connection between the climate and cultural development since the middle ages. Behringer's exciting study graphically portrays the difficulties that our ancestors had to face and the solutions they came up with, and also discusses sometimes balmier periods such as the age of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. It will give us new heart to think of climate change as the number one challenge for our generation and to develop more positive approaches to the issue.
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Citations
- Choice, 10/01/2010, Page 0