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Record #159303:

The Little Ice Age: how climate made history, 1300-1850 / Brian Fagan.

Title: The Little Ice Age: how climate made history, 1300-1850 / Brian Fagan.
Author(s): Fagan, Brian.
Date: 2002.
Publisher: NY, USA: Basic Books
Abstract: Traces climatic shifts of Little Ice Age and its effects upon man's condition and events in history. Covers previous Medieval Warm Period, the start of cooling and its consequences, agricultural revolution in northern Europe, and Modern Warm Period, with migration from Europe resulting in land clearance that triggered global warming through release of carbon dioxide into atmosphere. Draws upon wide range of sources to make thoroughly informative book.
Keywords: 551.336 -- Ice ages.
551.794 -- Holocene.
551.58 -- Climatology.
551.583.2 -- Climatic changes, historic.
551.588 -- Climate, effect of man and environment.
93 -- History.
V -- History.
(4) -- Europe.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SHF: 551.583[2002]
ISBN: 0465022723
SPRI record no.: 159303

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