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The ancient Mediterranean environment between science and history
- Title
- The ancient Mediterranean environment between science and history / edited by W.V. Harris.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Harris, William V. (William Vernon)
- Description
- xxi, 332 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 0166-1302 ; volume 39
- Uniform Title
- Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; volume 39.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- What kind of environmental history for antiquity? / W.V. Harris -- Energy consumption and the energy crisis in the Roman world / Paolo Malanima -- Fuelling ancient Mediterranean cities : a framework for charcoal research / Robyn Veal -- What climate science, Ausonius, Nile floods, rye farming, and thatched roofs tell us about the environmental history of the Roman empire / Michael McCormick -- Megadroughts, ENSO, and the invasion of late-Roman Europe by the Huns and Avars / Edward R. Cook -- The Roman world and climate : context, relevance of climate change, and some issues / Sturt Manning -- Defining and detecting deforestation in the ancient Mediterranean, 800BC to 600CE / W.V. Harris -- Problems of relating environmental history and human settlement in the classical and late-classical periods : the example of southern Jordan / Paula Kouki -- Human-environment interactions in the southern Tyrrhenian coastal area : hypotheses from Neapolis and Elea-Velia / Elda Russo Ermolli, Paolo Romano, and Maria Rosaria Ruello -- Large-scale water management projects in Roman central-southern Italy / Duncan Keenan-Jones -- The Mediterranean environment in ancient history : perspectives and prospects / Andrew Wilson.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-7353
- ISBN
- 9789004253438 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9004253432 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9789004254053 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013021551
- OCLC
- 847985877
- Title
- The ancient Mediterranean environment between science and history / edited by W.V. Harris.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 0166-1302 ; volume 39Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; volume 39.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Harris, William V. (William Vernon), author, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-7353