Format:
1 online resource (284 pages)
ISBN:
9781139554787
Content:
A provocative study of the devastating impact of climate change across the eastern Mediterranean in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
Content:
Cover -- THE COLLAPSE OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps and figures -- MAPS -- FIGURES -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: The collapse of the eastern Mediterranean -- CHAPTER ONE: Presenting the events -- A WAVE OF NOMADIZATION AND DISLOCATION -- COLLAPSE OF BUREAUCRACIES -- THE CREATION OF NOMADIC STATEHOODS -- THE DECLINE OF URBAN CULTURE -- DESERTION OF MARGINAL AGRICULTURAL PROVINCES -- DECLINE OF CULTURES -- MINORITIES AND THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE LEVANT -- CHAPTER TWO: Deconstructing a 'collapse' -- 'OVERSHOOT AND COLLAPSE' THEORY VERSUS 'RESILIENCE' THEORY -- HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF A CLIMATIC DISASTER -- SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF A CLIMATIC DISASTER: DROUGHTS IN THE NILE VALLEY -- EARLIER COLD SPELLS IN IRAN AND MESOPOTAMIA -- DOMINO EFFECTS -- CHAPTER THREE: 950-1027: an impending disaster -- EGYPT: SEVEN BAD YEARS (963-9) -- CONSECUTIVE FAILURES OF THE NILE, 1004-9 -- COLD SPELLS IN BAGHDAD, 398/1007, AND IN SOUTHERN ITALY, 398/1007-402/1012 AND 1017 -- EGYPT IN THE MID 1020S -- PART TWO: Regional domino effects in the eastern Mediterranean: 1027-60 AD -- CHAPTER FOUR: The collapse of Iran -- THE CLIMATIC CRISIS OF 1024-71 -- THE COLLAPSE OF IRAN -- NOMADS ACQUIRE POLITICAL POWER -- CHAPTER FIVE: The fall of Baghdad -- POLITICAL EVENTS AND CLIMATIC DISASTERS -- THE CIVIL WAR (1055-60) -- NOMADIC STATEHOOD -- CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE CRISIS -- DESTRUCTION OF LIBRARIES AND ACADEMIES -- THE 1060S: THE RECOVERY OF BAGHDAD -- THE INTRODUCTION OF THE MADRASA (LAW COLLEGE) -- CHAPTER SIX: A crumbling empire: the Pechenegs and the decimation of Byzantium -- THE END OF BYZANTINE DOMINION IN SOUTHERN ITALY -- THE GREAT SCHISM OF 1054 -- RENEWED ATTACKS BY NOMADS -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Egypt and its provinces, 1050s-1070s -- 'THE GREAT CALAMITY'.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107023352
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107023352
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=989160
