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A Cultural History of Climate

A Cultural History of Climate Paperback / softback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Behringer, Wolfgang (Saarland University, Germany)

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? This book introduces us to the historical research on the develop
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  • Title A Cultural History of Climate
  • Author Behringer, Wolfgang (Saarland University, Germany)
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press
  • Date 2009-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780745645292_inp
  • 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

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From the rear cover

Everyone talks about the weather. We are no exception: there are currently more predictions than usual about what it will look like in the future. But what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? How can we know anything at all about the history of weather? What impact have climate changes had on human prosperity and the spirit of invention?

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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  • Choice, 10/01/2010, Page 0