Author: John D. PostPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608037424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Last Great Subsistence Crisis in the Western World
Author: John D. PostPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608037424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Eruptions that Shook the World
Author: Clive OppenheimerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139496395
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago? Did they contribute to the ebb and flow of ancient empires, the French Revolution and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 19th century? These are some of the claims made for volcanic cataclysm. Volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer explores rich geological, historical, archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records (such as ice cores and tree rings) to tell the stories behind some of the greatest volcanic events of the past quarter of a billion years. He shows how a forensic approach to volcanology reveals the richness and complexity behind cause and effect, and argues that important lessons for future catastrophe risk management can be drawn from understanding events that took place even at the dawn of human origins.
The Last Great Subsistence Crisis in the Western World
Author: John Dexter PostPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Ernährung / Europa / Geschichte.
Our Friends the Enemies
Author: Christine HaynesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe, the Allied powers insisted on a long-term occupation of the country to guarantee that the defeated nation rebuild itself and pay substantial reparations to its conquerors. Our Friends the Enemies provides the first comprehensive history of the post-Napoleonic occupation of France and its innovative approach to peacemaking. From 1815 to 1818, a multinational force of 150,000 men under the command of the Duke of Wellington occupied northeastern France. From military, political, and cultural perspectives, Christine Haynes reconstructs the experience of the occupiers and the occupied in Paris and across the French countryside. The occupation involved some violence, but it also promoted considerable exchange and reconciliation between the French and their former enemies. By forcing the restored monarchy to undertake reforms to meet its financial obligations, this early peacekeeping operation played a pivotal role in the economic and political reconstruction of France after twenty-five years of revolution and war. Transforming former European enemies into allies, the mission established Paris as a cosmopolitan capital and foreshadowed efforts at postwar reconstruction in the twentieth century.
The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies
Author: Giovanni Andrea CorniaPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191583928
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
In spite of widespread expectations of improvements in living standards and health conditions, in most of the countries of the former Soviet bloc the transition to the market economy was accompanied by a sharp increase in (already high) death rates. Such an increase provoked an 'excess mortality' of some three million people over the period 1989-96 alone, an unprecedented phenomenon in peacetime. Such a crisis remains poorly explained, has generated a limited policy response in the countries concerned and international organizations, and is bound to generate important political and economic repercussions. This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis in transitional economies, of its causes, and of its remedies on the basis - among others - of micro data sets and quasi-panels on health trends which have never been used before. Contributions by demographers, economists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and health experts provide a rigorous analysis of the upsurge in mortality rates, with the aim of contributing to the launch of vigorous policies to tackle the crisis.
Wasted World
Author: Rob HengeveldPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226326993
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Discusses resource consumption, population growth, and waste in relation to humanity's impact on the planet.
Chaos in the Heavens
Author: Jean-Baptiste FressozPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839767243
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"If you want to understand the long path to the climate crisis, read this book." –Deborah Coen, Professor of History and the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University Politicians and scientists have debated climate change for centuries in times of rapid change Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated: by the Conquistadors in the New World, by the French revolutionaries of 1789, by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth century, by the European imperialists in Asia and Africa until the Second World War. Climate change was at the heart of fundamental debates about colonisation, God, the state, nature, and capitalism. From these intellectual and political battles emerged key concepts of contemporary environmental science and policy. For a brief interlude, science and industry instilled in us the reassuring illusion of an impassive climate. But, in the age of global warming, we must, once again, confront the chaos in the heavens.
Down to Earth
Author: Theodore SteinbergPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195140095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
From the Pilgrims to Disney World, Steinberg offers a bold and exciting new way to understand American history through the lens of nature. 65 halftones. 5 maps.
Understanding Catastrophe
Author: Janine BourriauPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521413244
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Darwin College Lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1990.
Cities, Peasants and Food in Classical Antiquity
Author: Peter GarnseyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521892902
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the urban economy and society, peasants and the rural economy, and food-supply and food-crisis. While focusing on eleven centuries of antiquity from archaic Greece to late imperial Rome, the essays include theoretical and comparative analyses of food-crisis and pastoralism, and an interdisciplinary study of the health status of the people of Rome using physical anthropology and nutritional science. A variety of subjects are treated, from the misconduct of a builders' association in late antique Sardis, to a survey of the cultural associations and physiological effects of the broad bean.