Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first
global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system
approach of the new climate science with the material history of
humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and
climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological and
human evolution. Part II explores the environmental circumstances
of the rise of agriculture and the state in the Early and
Mid-Holocene, and presents an analysis of human health from the
Paleolithic through the rise of the state. Part III introduces the
problem of economic growth and examines the human condition in the
Late Holocene from the Bronze Age through the Black Death. Part IV
explores the move to modernity, stressing the emerging role of
human economic and energy systems as earth-system agents in the
Anthropocene. Supported by climatic, demographic, and economic
data, this provides a pathbreaking model for historians of the
environment, the world, and science.
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