Climate change and ancient societies in Europe and the Near East : diversity in collapse and resilience
著者
書誌事項
Climate change and ancient societies in Europe and the Near East : diversity in collapse and resilience
(Palgrave studies in ancient economies)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2021
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa from the fourth millennium BCE up to the end of the first millennium CE.
This book contributes to the multi-disciplinary debate between scholars working on climate and society from various backgrounds. The chronological boundaries of the book are set by the emergence of complex societies in the Neolithic on the one end and the rise of early-modern states in global political and economic exchange on the other. In order to stimulate comparison across the boundaries of modern periodization, this book ends with demography and climate change in early-modern and modern Italy, a society whose empirical data allows the kind of statistical analysis that is impossible for ancient societies.
The book highlights the role of human agency, and the complex interactions between the natural environment and the socio-cultural, political, demographic, and economic infrastructure of any given society. It is intended for a wide audience of scholars and students in ancient economic history, specifically Rome and Late Antiquity.
目次
1. Chapter 1: A historian's introduction to paleoclimatology.- Chapter 2: A hard row to hoe. Climate change from the crop perspective.- Chapter 3: Who follows the elephant will have problems. Thought on modelling Roman responses to climate (changes).- Chapter 4: Famines, demographic crises and climate in Italy, 1650-1913.- Chapter 5: Collapse and resilience in prehistoric archaeology: Questioning concepts and causalities in models of climate-induced societal transformations.- Chapter 6: Climate, state building and political change in Egypt during the Early Bronze Age: a direct relation?.- Chapter 7: Vulnerability to climate change in Late Bronze Age Peloponnese (Greece).- Chapter 8: Saving up for a rainy day? Climate events, human-induced processes, and their potential effects on people's coping strategies in the Mycenaean Argive Plain, Greece.- Chapter 9: Peloponnesian land-use dynamics and climate variability in the first millennium BCE.- Chapter 10: Volcanic eruptions, veiled Suns, and Nile failure in Egyptian history: Integrating hydroclimate into understandings of historical change.- Chapter 11: The environmental imperialism of the Roman Empire in northwestern Europe.- Chapter 12: Seasonal drought on Roman rivers: transport vs. irrigation.- Chapter 13: The Antonine crisis: Climate change as a potential trigger for epidemiological and economic turmoil.- Chapter 14: Climate change and the productive landscape in the Mediterranean region in the Roman period.- Chapter 15: Viticulture as a climate proxy for the Roman world? Global warming as a comparative framework for interpreting the ancient source material in Italy and the West (ca. 200 BC-AD 200).- Chapter 16: Risks for farming families in the Roman World.- Chapter 17: Figures in an imperial landscape. Ecological and societal factors on settlement patterns and agriculture in Roman Italy.- Chapter 18: Hydrological changes in Late Antiquity: spatio-temporal characteristics and socio-economic impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean.- Chapter 19: Resilience and adaptation at the end of Antiquity. An evaluation of the impact of climate change in Late Roman western-central Anatolia.- Chapter 20: The social metabolism of past societies. A new approach to environmental changes and societal responses in the territory of Sagalassos (Turkey).
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