A cultural history of climate
By: Wolfgang Behringer ; translated by Patrick Camiller
Publisher: Polity; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780745645285; 9780745645292
Work titles: Kulturgeschichte des Klimas
Description: Explores the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate, showing how even minor changes in the climate could result in major social, political, and religious upheavals.
Notes: "First published in German as Kulturgeschichte des Klimas © Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, München, 2007"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What do we know about the climate? Sources of climate history ; Causes of climate change ; The Palaeoclimate since the formation of the planet; title: Global warming : the Holocene. Children of the ice age ; Global warming and civilization ; From Roman optimum to medieval warm period; title: Global cooling : the little ice age. The concept of the little ice age ; The changing environment ; Dance of death ; Winter blues; title: Cultural consequences of the little ice age. The wrathful God ; Sin economics as the motor of change ; The cool sun of reason; title: Global warming : the modern warm period. Apparent uncoupling from the forces of nature ; The discovery of global warming ; Reactions to climate change; title: Epilogue : sins against the environment and greenhouse climate.