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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.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QC981.8.C5 W395 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 413 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- The historical ecology series
- Uniform Title
- Historical ecology series
- Subject
- Climatic changes
- Nature > Effect of human beings on
- Human ecology
- climate change
- human ecology
- Climatic changes
- Human ecology
- Nature > Effect of human beings on
- Kultur
- Sozialer Wandel
- Klima
- Klimaänderung
- Humanökologie
- Klimaatveranderingen
- Mens en natuur
- Climatic changes > Social aspects
- Climatic changes > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies
- Ethnology
- Climatic changes > Social aspects > History
- 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 responses 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.
- ISBN
- 0231112084
- 9780231112086
- 0231112092
- 9780231112093
- LCCN
- 99057006
- OCLC
- ocm42772278
- 42772278
- SCSB-1144690
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library