@article{1440841,
      recid = {1440841},
      author = {Erdkamp, Paul, and Manning, Joseph Gilbert, and Verboven,  Koenraad,},
      title = {Climate change and ancient societies in Europe and the  Near East : diversity in collapse and resilience /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Climate change over the past thousands of years is  undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past  human societies. This book explores the link between  climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the  ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa  from the fourth millennium BCE up to the end of the first  millennium CE. This book contributes to the  multi-disciplinary debate between scholars working on  climate and society from various backgrounds. The  chronological boundaries of the book are set by the  emergence of complex societies in the Neolithic on the one  end and the rise of early-modern states in global political  and economic exchange on the other. In order to stimulate  comparison across the boundaries of modern periodization,  this book ends with demography and climate change in  early-modern and modern Italy, a society whose empirical  data allows the kind of statistical analysis that is  impossible for ancient societies. The book highlights the  role of human agency, and the complex interactions between  the natural environment and the socio-cultural, political,  demographic, and economic infrastructure of any given  society. It is intended for a wide audience of scholars and  students in ancient economic history, specifically Rome and  Late Antiquity. Paul Erdkamp is Professor in Ancient  History at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium. He teaches  Ancient History, specializing in the Roman World, with a  particular interest in economy, food supply,  historiography, and environmental and social aspects of  army and war. Joseph G. Manning is Professor of Classics  and Professor of History and Senior Research Scholar in Law  at Yale University, New Haven, USA. He specializes in  Hellenistic history with particular focus on the legal and  economic history of Ptolemaic Egypt. Koenraad Verboven is  Professor of Ancient History at the University of Ghent,  Belgium. He specializes in ancient social and economic  history, particularly of the Roman world, and has a special  interest in monetary history and numismatics, friendship  and patronage based networks, guilds (collegia), (neo-  )institutional analysis and complexity economics.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1440841},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81103-7},
}