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What Disease was Plague?
On the Controversy over the Microbiological Identity of Plague Epidemics of the Past
Inbunden, 2011
5036 kr
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In recent decades, alternatives to the established bubonic-plague theory have been presented as to the microbiologcal identity and mechanism(s) of spread of historical plague epidemics. In this monograph, the six important alternative theories are intensively discussed in the light of the …
Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Studies in Environmental History for Richard C. Hoffmann
Av Scott Bruce
Inbunden, 2010
2338 kr
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The field of premodern environmental history (the study of the complex and ever-changing interrelationship between human beings and the world around them prior to the Industrial Revolution) has grown vigorously over the past two decades, in no small part due to the energy and expertise of Richard …
Climate and Political Climate
Environmental Disasters in the Medieval Levant
Inbunden, 2013
2324 kr
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The twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the Levant saw a substantial rise in the number of droughts. This coincided with some of the most violent tectonic activity the region had witnessed. Nature, however, could conjure other powerful disasters: swarms of locusts, armies of mice, scorching winds …
Roots of Empire
Forests and State Power in Early Modern Spain, c.1500-1750
Av John T. Wing
Inbunden, 2015
2419 kr
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Roots of Empire is the first monograph to connect forest management and state-building in the early modern Spanish global monarchy. The Spanish crown's control over valuable sources of shipbuilding timber in Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines was critical for developing and sustaining its …
Santa Bárbara’s Legacy
An Environmental History of Huancavelica, Peru
Inbunden, 2017
1801 kr
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In Santa Bárbara’s Legacy: An Environmental History of Huancavelica, Peru, Nicholas A. Robins presents the first comprehensive environmental history of a mercury producing region in Latin America. Tracing the origins, rise and decline of the regional population and economy from pre-history to the …
Ecological Crisis and Water Supply
The Case of Andalusia in the Spanish Hydrological Context
Inbunden, 2023
2539 kr
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This book analyses the origin and evolution of the water supply service in Andalusia (southern Spain) between 1800 and 2020 from several perspectives. It does so from a historical perspective, to understand the evolution of the service over the years; from an economic perspective, as it is very …
Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks
Inbunden, 2024
2633 kr
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While providing a basis for all ecosystems, bugs such as insects and arachnids also destroy crops and indirectly kill humans and other animals by the millions. This book illuminates the many ways in which human lives affect and are affected by bugs as part of a wider network of species. 14 chapters …
Wood, Trade, and Spanish Naval Power (c.1740-1795)
Inbunden, 2024
1881 kr
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By focussing on timber sourcing, this book sheds light on the exploitation of forests in settings outside the Iberian Peninsula, including foreign states in the southern Baltic region and the colonial territory of New Spain between the c.1740-1795.Analysis of contracts, projects, and their …
Conservation and Production of Woodlands and Royal Forests in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula
Inbunden, 2026
2119 kr
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Studies on early modern woodlands typically focus on the production, conservation, or management of forests in regard to a specific socio-economic activity (i.e., shipbuilding, mining), or are centred on particular case studies in specific land tenures. This is the first volume to address the …
