Famines During the Little Ice Age (1300-1800) - Socionatural Entanglements in Premodern Societies

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 and culture in past societies.

List of contents

I. The Archives of Nature.- II. Case Studies: Europe.- III. Case Studies: Africa and Asia.- IV. Coping and adapting.- V. Perceiving Hunger.

Summary

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 and culture in past societies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dominik Collet (Editor), Schuh (Editor), Maximilian Schuh (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030104740
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3010474-0
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 444 g
• Illustrations: VI, 269 p. 41 illus., 30 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; B, History, Climate Change, Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie, Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung), Historiography, Earth and Environmental Science, Meteorology and climatology, Earth System Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, History, general