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Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey (Studies in Environment and History) - Softcover

Book 15 of 37: Studies in Environment and History

Brooke, John L.

 
9780521692182: Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey (Studies in Environment and History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521692180 ISBN 13: 9780521692182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity.

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About the Author

John L. Brooke is Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University, where he also directs the Center for Historical Research. His books include Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson (2010), which won the Best Book Prize from the Society of the Historians of the Early American Republic; The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713–1861 (Cambridge, 1994), which won the Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians; and The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844 (Cambridge, 1989), which won the Bancroft Prize for American History. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Antiquarian Society and the Harvard Charles Warren Center.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521692180
ISBN 13 
9780521692182
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
654