TY - BOOK AU - Bryson,Reid A. AU - Murray,Thomas J. TI - Climates of Hunger: Mankind and the World's Changing Weather SN - 9780299073732 AV - QC981.8.C5B79 1979 U1 - 551.6 PY - 1979/// CY - Madison PB - University of Wisconsin Press KW - Climatic changes KW - Paleoclimatology KW - Droughts KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- I: Two Tales of Famine -- 1. A Drought in Ancient Greece -- 2. The Case of the Missing Farmers -- 3. Weather of lndian Times -- II: Our Climates since A.D. 900 -- 4. One Thousand Years in Iceland -- 5. The Flow of Wine, Water, and Ice -- 6. The Past 1,000 Years: Europe, the North Atlantic, the United States -- III: The Monsoons Fail -- 7. Death in the Sahel -- 8. A Manmade Desert -- 9. The Enduring Problem -- IV: A Perspective on Climatic Change -- 10. In the Beginning -- 11. How Climate Changes -- 12. Pollutants in the Air -- 13. The Lessons of Climatic History -- References -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3445045 ER -