A cultural history of climate /
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| Author / Creator: | Behringer, Wolfgang. |
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| Uniform title: | Kulturgeschichte des Klimas. English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2010. |
| Description: | xv, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7904840 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. What Do We Know about the Climate?
- Sources of Climate History
- Causes of Climate Change
- The Palaeoclimate since the Formation of the Planet
- 2. Global Warming: The Holocene
- Children of the Ice Age
- Global Warming and Civilization
- From Roman Optimum to Medieval Warm Period
- 3. Global Cooling: The Little Ice Age
- The Concept of the Little Ice Age
- The Changing Environment
- Dance of Death
- Winter Blues
- 4. Cultural Consequences of the Little Ice Age
- The Wrathful God
- Sin Economics as the Motor of Change
- The Cool Sun of Reason
- 5. Global Warming: The Modern Warm Period
- Apparent Uncoupling from the Forces of Nature
- The Discovery of Global Warming
- Reactions to Climate Change
- 6. Sins against the Environment and Greenhouse Climate
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Picture credits
- Index
