Title:
Climate change and the health of nations : famines, fevers, and the fate of populations / Anthony J. McMichael with Alistair Woodward and Cameron Muir.
Author:
McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.), author.
Woodward, Alistair, author.
Muir, Cameron, author.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Call Number:
GF71 .M46 2017
ISBN:
9780190262952
Physical Description:
xx, 370 pages ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- A restless climate -- Climatic choreography of health and disease -- From Cambrian explosion to first farmers : how climate made us human -- Spread of farming, new diseases, and rising civilizations : mid-holocene optimum -- Eurasian bronze age : unsettled climatic times -- Romans, Mayans, and Anasazi : the classical optimum to droughts in the Americas -- Little ice age : Europe, China, and beyond -- Weather extremes in modern times -- Humans throughout the holocene -- Facing the future.
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