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History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of Closure.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Penrith : Humanities-Ebooks, LLP, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781847601667
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: History at the End of the World? History, Climate Change and the Possibility of ClosureLOC classification:
  • BL503.H57 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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 -- 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.

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