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Climate change and the course of global history: a rough journey

2014; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 52; Issue: 03 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.185152

1943-5975

John L. Brooke,

Historical and Architectural Studies

Introduction: growth, punctuation, and human well-being Part I. Evolution and Earth Systems: 1. The court jester on the platform of life 2. Human emergences Part II. Domestication, Agriculture, and the Rise of the State: 3. Agricultural revolutions 4. The Mid-Holocene and the urban-state revolution 5. Human well-being from the Pleistocene to the rise of the state Part III. Ancient and Medieval Agrarian Societies: 6. Stasis and growth in the epoch of agrarian empires 7. Optimum and crisis in early civilization, 3000-500 BC 8. A global antiquity, 500 BC-AD 542 9. The global dark and middle ages, AD 542-AD 1350 Part IV. Into the Modern Condition: 10. Climate, demography, economy, and polity in the late medieval-early modern world, 1350-1700 11. Global transformations: atlantic origins, 1700-1870 12. Launching modern growth: 1870 to 1945 13. Growth beyond limits: 1945 to present Coda. A rough journey into an uncertain future.