Format:
Online-Ressource (252 p)
ISBN:
1282526448
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9781282526440
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9781847601667
Content:
Cover -- Licence and Use -- Untitled -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Chronicle of a Death Foretold? -- Part I: Deep History -- 1. Responding to Climate Change: Lessons from our Prehistoric Ancestors. -- Part II: Harbingers of the End -- 2. We'll cope, Mankind always has: The Fall of Rome and the Cost of Crisis -- 3. People, climate and landscape in medieval Iceland and beyond -- 4. The Wrath of God: explanations of crisis and natural disaster in pre-modern Europe -- Part III: The Debate about Enlightenment and Modernity -- 5. The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution -- 6. Dangerous Limits: Climate Change and Modernity -- Part IV: Coming to Terms with a Recent Historical Legacy -- 7. Five Lessons for the Climate Crisis: What the History of Resource Scarcity in the United States and Japan can teach us -- 8. 'We are All Slave Owners now': Fossil Fuels, Energy Consumption and the Legacy of Slave Abolition -- Part V: Countdown to Self-Annihilation -- 9. Climate Change, Resources and Future War: The Case of Central Asia -- 10. On the Edge of History: the Nuclear Dimension -- Part VI: Surviving Catastrophe: Creating Conditions for Renewal -- 11. On Reading History as a Mental Health Issue -- 12. A Zoroastrian Dilemma? Parsi Responses to Global Catastrophe -- 13. How Novels Can Contribute to our Understanding of Climate Change -- 14. Towards Transition -- Humanities-Ebooks.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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""Cover ""; ""Licence and Use""; ""Untitled""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents ""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction: A Chronicle of a Death Foretold?""; ""Part I: Deep History ""; ""1. Responding to Climate Change: Lessons from our Prehistoric Ancestors. ""; ""Part II: Harbingers of the End ""; ""2. We�ll cope, Mankind always has: The Fall of Rome and the Cost of Crisis ""; ""3. People, climate and landscape in medieval Iceland and beyond ""; ""4. The Wrath of God: explanations of crisis and natural disaster in pre-modern Europe""
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""Part III: The Debate about Enlightenment and Modernity """"5. The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution ""; ""6. Dangerous Limits: Climate Change and Modernity ""; ""Part IV: Coming to Terms with a Recent Historical Legacy ""; ""7. Five Lessons for the Climate Crisis: What the History of Resource Scarcity in the United States and Japan can teach us ""; ""8. �We are All Slave Owners now�: Fossil Fuels, Energy Consumption and the Legacy of Slave Abolition""; ""Part V: Countdown to Self-Annihilation""; ""9. Climate Change, Resources and Future War: The Case of Central Asia""
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""10. On the Edge of History: the Nuclear Dimension""""Part VI: Surviving Catastrophe: Creating Conditions for Renewal""; ""11. On Reading History as a Mental Health Issue""; ""12. A Zoroastrian Dilemma? Parsi Responses to Global Catastrophe""; ""13. How Novels Can Contribute to our Understanding of Climate Change ""; ""14. Towards Transition""; ""Humanities-Ebooks""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282526081
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847601674
Additional Edition:
Print version History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure
Language:
English
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