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Climate, history and the modern world
- Title
- Climate, history and the modern world / H.H. Lamb.
- Author
- Lamb, H. H.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QC981 .L277 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiv, 433 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Climate Problem -- 3. How Climate Works -- 4. How Climate Comes to Fluctuate and Change -- 5. How We Can Reconstruct the Past Record of Climate -- 6. Climate at the Dawn of History -- 7. In the Times of the Early Civilizations -- 8. Times of Disturbance and Decline in the Ancient World -- 9. Roman Times and After -- 10. Through Viking Times to the High Middle Ages -- 11. Decline Again in the Late Middle Ages -- 12. The Little Ice Age: Background to the History of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 13. The Recovery, 1700 to Around 1950 -- 14. Climate Since 1950 -- 15. The Impact of Climatic Developments on Human Affairs and Human History -- 16. The Causes of Climate's Fluctuations and Changes -- 17. Forecasting -- 18. What Can We Do About It? -- 19. Recent Developments and the Outlook.
- ISBN
- 0415127343
- 0415127351 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 94044666
- OCLC
- ocm31753591
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries