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The way the wind blows : climate, history, and human action

Title
The way the wind blows : climate, history, and human action / edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • McIntosh, Roderick J.
  • Tainter, Joseph A.
  • McIntosh, Susan Keech.
Description
xvii, 413 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
Series Statement
The historical ecology series
Subject
  • Climatic changes
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on
  • Human ecology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Climate, history, and human action / Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech McIntosh -- Climate variability during the Holocene : an update / Robert B. Dunbar -- Complexity theory and sociocultural change in the American Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean -- Environmental perception and human responses in history and prehistory / Fekri Hassan -- Social memory in Mande / Roderick J. McIntosh -- Memories, abstractions, and conceptualization of ecological crisis in the Mande world / Téréba Togola -- From garden to globe : linking time and space with meaning and memory / Carole L. Crumley -- Chinese attitudes toward climate / Cho-yun Hsu -- Three rivers : subregional variations in earth system impacts in the Southwestern Maya lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champotón watersheds) / Joel D. Gunn and William J. Folan -- The lowland Maya civilization : historical consciousness and environment / David Freidel and Justine Shaw -- Social repsonses to climate change among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California / John R. Johnson -- Global change, history, and sustainability / Joseph A. Tainter -- Land degradation as a socionatural process / S.E. van der Leeuw and the ARCHAEOMEDES Research Team.
Call Number
JSF 03-883
ISBN
  • 0231112084 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231112092 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99057006
OCLC
42772278
Title
The way the wind blows : climate, history, and human action / edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
Series
The historical ecology series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
McIntosh, Roderick J.
Tainter, Joseph A.
McIntosh, Susan Keech.
Research Call Number
JSF 03-883
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