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This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field
guide to past weather and climate and their role in human
societies. Bringing together dozens of international specialists
from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the
methods, sources, and major findings of historical climate
reconstruction and impact research. Its chapters take the reader
through each key source of past climate and weather information and
each technique of analysis; through each historical period and
region of the world; through the major topics of climate and
history and core case studies; and finally through the history of
climate ideas and science. Using clear, non-technical language, The
Palgrave Handbook of Climate History serves as a textbook for
students, a reference guide for specialists and an introduction to
climate history for scholars and interested readers.
Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence
of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the
world and their consequences for human life, not only in the
immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our
desire to learn more about disaster experiences in the past. How
did disaster experiences impact on the development of modern
sciences in the early modern era? Why did religion continue to play
such an important role in the encounter with disasters, despite the
strong trend towards secularization in the modern world? What was
the political role of disasters? Historical Disasters in Context
illustrates how past societies coped with a threatening
environment, how societies changed in response to disaster
experiences, and how disaster experiences were processed and
communicated, both locally and globally. Particular emphasis is put
on the realms of science, religion, and politics. International
case studies demonstrate that while there are huge differences
across cultures in the way people and societies responded to
disasters, there are also many commonalities and interactions
between different cultures that have the potential to alter the
ways people prepare for and react to disasters in future. To
explain these relationships and highlight their significance is the
purpose of this volume.
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Wissen im Netz (German, Hardcover)
Regina Dauser, Stefan Hachler, Michael Kempe, Franz Mauelshagen, Martin Stuber
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R2,459
Discovery Miles 24 590
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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Europaische Korrespondenznetze, die Kommunikation uber weite Raume
und Grenzen hinweg ermoglichten, sind das Thema der Beitrage des
Bandes. Nicht nur Meinungs- und Nachrichtenaustausch vollzog sich
uber das Medium des Briefes, auch Realien Antiquitaten,
Handelswaren, Bucher und Naturalien wurden in diesen Transfer
einbezogen und hatten in Korrespondenznetzen der Fruhen Neuzeit
eine hohe Bedeutung. Durch die Diskussion und Anwendung moderner
netzwerkanalytischer Verfahren prasentiert der Band in
interdisziplinarer Kooperation zugleich neue Wege einer
systematisch-vergleichenden Erforschung der Struktur und Dynamik
von Korrespondenznetzen."
This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field
guide to past weather and climate and their role in human
societies. Bringing together dozens of international specialists
from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the
methods, sources, and major findings of historical climate
reconstruction and impact research. Its chapters take the reader
through each key source of past climate and weather information and
each technique of analysis; through each historical period and
region of the world; through the major topics of climate and
history and core case studies; and finally through the history of
climate ideas and science. Using clear, non-technical language, The
Palgrave Handbook of Climate History serves as a textbook for
students, a reference guide for specialists and an introduction to
climate history for scholars and interested readers.
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