The Empire of Climate A History of an Idea
How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anx...
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. A Matter of Degree
- Part I: Health
- 2. Heirs of Hippocrates
- 3. Tropical Terrain: Moral and Medical
- 4. Climate, Eugenics, and the Biometeorological Body
- Part II: Mind
- 5. Climate, Cognition, and Human Evolution
- 6. Mind, Mood, and Meteorology
- Part III: Wealth
- 7. Weather, Wealth, and Zonal Economics
- 8. Slavery, Sustenance, and Tropical Supervision
- 9. Climate, Capital, Civilization
- Part IV: War
- 10. Climate Wars
- 11. Securitizing Climate Change
- Conclusion
- 12. Immortal Bird
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index