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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, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • McIntosh, Roderick J.
  • Tainter, Joseph A.
  • McIntosh, Susan Keech.
Description
xvii, 413 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.
Series Statement
The historical ecology series
Uniform Title
Historical ecology series.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Ch. 1. Climate, History, and Human Action / Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter and Susan Keech McIntosh -- Ch. 2. Climate Variability During the Holocene: An Update / Robert B. Dunbar -- Ch. 3. Complexity Theory and Sociocultural Change in the American Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean -- Ch. 4. Environmental Perception and Human Responses in History and Prehistory / Fekri Hassan -- Ch. 5. Social Memory in Mande / Roderick J. McIntosh -- Ch. 6. Memories, Abstractions, and Conceptualization of Ecological Crisis in the Mande World / Tereba Togola -- Ch. 7. From Garden to Globe: Linking Time and Space with Meaning and Memory / Carole L. Crumley -- Ch. 8. Chinese Attitudes Toward Climate / Cho-yun Hsu -- Ch. 9. Three Rivers: Subregional Variations in Earth System Impacts in the Southwestern Maya Lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champoton Watersheds) / Joel D. Gunn and William J. Folan --
  • Ch. 10. The Lowland Maya Civilization: Historical Consciousness and Environment / David Freidel and Justine Shaw -- Ch. 11. Social Responses to Climate Change Among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California / John R. Johnson -- Ch. 12. Global Change, History, and Sustainability / Joseph A. Tainter -- Ch. 13. Land Degradation as a Socionatural Process / S. E. van der Leeuw / Archaeomedes Research Team.
ISBN
  • 0231112084 (alk. paper)
  • 0231112092 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99057006
OCLC
  • ocm42772278
  • SCSB-3902535
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries