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Famine in the Premodern World (1300-1800)
. Ed(S): Collet, Dominik; Schuh, Maximilian
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Description for Famine in the Premodern World (1300-1800)
Hardback. Editor(s): Collet, Dominik; Schuh, Maximilian. Num Pages: 400 pages, 20 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This highly interdisciplinary book studies historical famines as an interface of nature and culture. It will bring together researchers from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. With reference to recent interdisciplinary concepts (disaster studies, vulnerability studies, environmental history) it will examine, how the dominant opposition of natural and cultural factors can be overcome. Such an integrated approach includes the "archives of nature" as well as "archives of man". It challenges deterministic models of human-environment interaction and replaces them with a dynamic, historicising approach. As a result it provides a fresh perspective on the entanglement of climate ... Read more
This highly interdisciplinary book studies historical famines as an interface of nature and culture. It will bring together researchers from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. With reference to recent interdisciplinary concepts (disaster studies, vulnerability studies, environmental history) it will examine, how the dominant opposition of natural and cultural factors can be overcome. Such an integrated approach includes the "archives of nature" as well as "archives of man". It challenges deterministic models of human-environment interaction and replaces them with a dynamic, historicising approach. As a result it provides a fresh perspective on the entanglement of climate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319543413
SKU
V9783319543413
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Ref
99-15
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