A cultural history of climate / Wolfgang Behringer ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
Behringer, Wolfgang.
2010
GF71 .B4413 2010 (Mapit)
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Title A cultural history of climate / Wolfgang Behringer ; translated by Patrick Camiller.
Author Behringer, Wolfgang.
Uniform Title Kulturgeschichte des Klimas. English
ISBN 9780745645292 (pbk.)
0745645291 (pbk.)
9780745645285
0745645283
Imprint Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2010.
Language English
Description xv, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number GF71 .B4413 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 304.2/5
Summary Explores the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate, showing how even minor changes in the climate could result in major social, political, and religious upheavals.
Note "First published in German as Kulturgeschichte des Klimas ³ Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, München, 2007"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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What do we know about the climate? Sources of climate history ; Causes of climate change ; The Palaeoclimate since the formation of the planet
Global warming : the Holocene. Children of the ice age ; Global warming and civilization ; From Roman optimum to medieval warm period
Global cooling : the little ice age. The concept of the little ice age ; The changing environment ; Dance of death ; Winter blues
Cultural consequences of the little ice age. The wrathful God ; Sin economics as the motor of change ; The cool sun of reason
Global warming : the modern warm period. Apparent uncoupling from the forces of nature ; The discovery of global warming ; Reactions to climate change
Epilogue : sins against the environment and greenhouse climate.

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