| Series | Studies in environment and history
Studies in environment and history. ^A127013 |
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Geological Time: The Court Jester on the Platform of Life -- Tectonics, Asteroids, Plumes, Punctuation, Gaia: Revolutions in Earth Science -- Evolution: From Neo-Darwinism to Complex Emergence -- A Punctuated Earth Systems Synthesis -- Origins: The Hadean and the Archean -- The Archean/Paleo-Proterozoic Crisis -- The Neoproterozoic Crisis and the Cambrian: A Snowball Earth? -- Phanerozoic Super-Cycles -- and Biotic Extinctions and Escalations -- Mass Extinctions -- 2. Human Emergence -- Into the Cenozoic Icehouse -- The Court Jester in the Cenozoic: Debate and Three Kinds of Evidence -- Miocene Apes and the Early Hominins -- Orbital Cycles: From the 23K World to the 41K World -- The 41K World and the Genus Homo -- The 100K World: Homo Heidelbergensis, Archaic Homo Sapiens -- Modern Humans in the 100K World -- The Modern Origins Debate and a Renewed Understanding of Mortality -- Gould and Eldridge's Punctuation Meets Boserup's Intensification: Toward a New Understanding of the Upper Paleolithic |
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3. Agricultural Revolutions -- Energy -- Changing Climates: The End of the Pleistocene -- New Climate Science, New Archaeological Science -- Human Adaptation at the Balling-Allerad Warming: The Mesolithic -- The Younger Dryas and the Early Holocene: Cereal Domestication in the Northern Mid-Latitudes -- Early Holocene Warming and Tropical Domestications -- Into the Mid-Holocene: Final Domestications and First Dispersals -- 4. The Mid-Holocene, the Late Neolithic, and the Urban-State Revolution -- The Emergence of Modern Global Climates: The Mid-Holocene Transition -- The Mid-Holocene Crisis and the Rise of the State -- Neolithic Intensification: The Secondary Products Revolution -- China and Mesopotamia in the Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition -- 5. Human Well-Being from the Paleolithic to the Rise of the State -- Human Health in the Paleolithic -- The Neolithic Demographic Transition -- Civilizational Stresses in the Neolithic -- Fertility and Mortality in the Neolithic -- Fertility, Mortality, and the Origins of Complex Societies: The Case of Southwest Asia |
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6. Stasis and Growth in the Epoch of Agrarian Empires -- Getting Ahead, Running in Place, Falling Behind -- Population Growth and Dark Ages -- Endogenous Degradations? -- Late Holocene Climate Reversals -- Disease and Epidemics -- Energy: Innovation, Labor, and Slavery -- Punctuations -- 7. Optimum and Crisis in Early Civilizations, 3000-500 BC -- The Old World Bronze Age: Expansions and Crises, 3000-1000 BC -- The Preclassical Crisis and the Age of Iron, 1200-300 BC -- A Global View on Optimum and Crisis -- Human Health in the Bronze Age Optimum and the Iron Age/Preclassical Crisis -- 8. A Global Antiquity, 500 BC-AD 542 -- The Problem of Growth in Antiquity -- China, Iron, and Rotary Power -- Global Antiquity: Numbers and Climate -- The Rise of Rome -- The Fall of Rome? -- 9. The Global Dark and Middle Ages, AD 542-1350 -- Climate Reversals in the Tropics and the North -- The Dark Ages, AD 400-900 -- The Medieval Climate Anomaly, AD 900-1275 -- Population and Health in the Old World Dark and Middle Ages |
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Growth and Crisis in the Medieval World, 1000-1350 -- Southern Asia -- North America -- China and Mongolia -- Into the Little Ice Age -- Europe -- The Little Ice Age and the Black Death -- 10. Climate, Demography, Economy, and Polity in the Late Medieval-Early Modern World, 1350-1700 -- Population in and beyond the Third Age of Epidemics, 1300-1800 -- The Question of Growth and Divergence -- The Aftermath of the Third Age of Epidemics -- Emerging European Empires, New World Depopulation -- The Little Ice Age, New World Depopulation, and the Origins of the African Slave Trade -- The Little Ice Age and Early Modern Eurasia -- Early Modern England in the Age of Empire, the Little Ice Age, and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis -- The Seventeenth-Century English Energy Revolution -- 11. Global Transformations: Atlantic Origins, 1700-1870 -- The End of the Little Ice Age and the Beginning of Modern Population Growth, 1700-1860's -- The Beginnings of the Modern Anthropocene -- Industrial Revolutions -- The First Industrial Revolution -- Emissions and Atmosphere, 1800-1880 |
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12. Launching Modern Growth: 1870 to 1945 -- Urbanization, a New Political Economy, and the Second Industrial Revolution -- Atlantic Cities and the First Wave: Environmental Crisis and Social Reform -- The Second Industrial Revolution -- The Demographic Revolution, 1800-1945 -- 1914-1945: A World in Crisis, Growth on Hold -- Environmental Impacts, 1870-1945: The Second Wave -- 13. Growth beyond Limits: 1945 to Present -- The Demographic Revolution, Part II: 1945 to Present -- The Age of High Growth and a Third Industrial Revolution? The World Economy, 1945 to Present -- Environmental Impacts, 1945 to Present: Confronting the Third Wave -- The Modern Anthropocene -- Malthus Vindicated? -- Deniers, Pessimists, and Pragmatists. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-591) and index. |
| LCCN | 2013036435 |
| ISBN | 9780521871648 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0521871646 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780521692182 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0521692180 (paperback) |
| Standard identifier# |
40023526014 |
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