Climate change and the health of nations : famines, fevers, and the fate of populations
2017,
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, xx, 370 pages ;
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| Publication information: |
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] |
| ISBN: |
0190262958 |
| ISBN: |
9780190262952 |
| Language: |
English |
| Record ID: |
3524964 |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
xx, 370 pages ; 25 cm |
| Date acquired: |
April 25, 2017
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| More creator details: |
Anthony J. McMichael with Alistair Woodward and Cameron Muir. |
| Contents note: |
Introduction -- A restless climate -- Climatic choreography of health and disease -- From Cambrian explosion to first farmers : how climate made us human -- Spread of farming, new diseases, and rising civilizations : mid-holocene optimum -- Eurasian bronze age : unsettled climatic times -- Romans, Mayans, and Anasazi : the classical optimum to droughts in the Americas -- Little ice age : Europe, China, and beyond -- Weather extremes in modern times -- Humans throughout the holocene -- Facing the future. |
| Contributor: |
Muir, Cameron, author.
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| Contributor: |
Woodward, Alistair, author.
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