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The way the wind blows : climate, history, and human action / edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh.

Contributor(s): Series: The historical ecology series ; New York : Columbia University Press, c2000Description: xvii, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0231112084 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231112092 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2/5 21
LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.C5 W395 2000
Contents:
Climate, history, and human action / Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech McIntosh -- Climate variability during the Holocene : an update / Robert B. Dunbar -- Complexity theory and sociocultural change in the American Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean -- Environmental perception and human responses in history and prehistory / Fekri Hassan -- Social memory in Mande / Roderick J. McIntosh -- Memories, abstractions, and conceptualization of ecological crisis in the Mande world / Téréba Togola -- From garden to globe : linking time and space with meaning and memory / Carole L. Crumley -- Chinese attitudes toward climate / Cho-yun Hsu -- Three rivers : subregional variations in earth system impacts in the Southwestern Maya lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champotón watersheds) / Joel D. Gunn and William J. Folan -- The lowland Maya civilization : historical consciousness and environment / David Freidel and Justine Shaw -- Social repsonses to climate change among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California / John R. Johnson -- Global change, history, and sustainability / Joseph A. Tainter -- Land degradation as a socionatural process / S.E. van der Leeuw and the ARCHAEOMEDES Research Team.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC981.8 .C5 .W395 2000 1 Available 50583010365694
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate, history, and human action / Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech McIntosh -- Climate variability during the Holocene : an update / Robert B. Dunbar -- Complexity theory and sociocultural change in the American Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean -- Environmental perception and human responses in history and prehistory / Fekri Hassan -- Social memory in Mande / Roderick J. McIntosh -- Memories, abstractions, and conceptualization of ecological crisis in the Mande world / Téréba Togola -- From garden to globe : linking time and space with meaning and memory / Carole L. Crumley -- Chinese attitudes toward climate / Cho-yun Hsu -- Three rivers : subregional variations in earth system impacts in the Southwestern Maya lowlands (Candelaria, Usumacinta, and Champotón watersheds) / Joel D. Gunn and William J. Folan -- The lowland Maya civilization : historical consciousness and environment / David Freidel and Justine Shaw -- Social repsonses to climate change among the Chumash Indians of South-Central California / John R. Johnson -- Global change, history, and sustainability / Joseph A. Tainter -- Land degradation as a socionatural process / S.E. van der Leeuw and the ARCHAEOMEDES Research Team.

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