Bibliograph

Climate, history, and the modern world, H.H. Lamb

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Climate, history, and the modern world, H.H. Lamb

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Climate, history, and the modern world

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

31753591

Responsibility statement

H.H. Lamb

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- The climate problem -- PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISEASE: How climate works -- How climate comes to fluctuate and change -- How we can reconstruct the past record of climate -- PART II: CLIMATE AND HISTORY: Climate at the dawn of history -- In the times of the early civilizations -- Times of disturbance and decline of the ancient world -- Roman times and after -- Through Viking times to the high Middle Ages -- Decline again in the late Middle Ages -- Little Ice Age: background to the history of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries -- The recovery, 1700 to around 1950 -- PART III: CLIMATE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND QUESTIONS OVER THE FUTURE: Climate since 1950 -- The impact of climatic developments on human affairs and human history -- The causes of climate's fluctuations and changes -- Forecasting -- What can we do about it? -- Recent developments and the outlook -- Notes

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