Brooke, John L., 1953-
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Part of the series Studies in environment and history;Studies in environment and history.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-591) and index.
• I. Evolution and earth systems. 1. Geological time: the court jester on the platform of life. Tectonics, asteroids, plumes, punctuation, Gaia: revolutions in earth science — Evolution: from neo-Darwinism to complex emergence — A punctuated earth systems synthesis — Origins: the Hadean and the Archean — The Archean/Paleo-proterozoic crisis — The Neoproterozoic crisis and the Cambrian: a snowball earth? — Phanerozoic super-cycles–and biotic extinctions and escalations — Mass extinctions — 2. Human emergence. Into the Cenozoic icehouse — The court jester in the Cenozoic: debate and three kinds of evidence — Miocene apes and the early hominins — Orbital cycles: from the 23K world to the 41K world — The 41K world and the genus Homo — The 100K world: homo Heidelbergensis, archaic homo Sapiens — Modern humans in the 100K world — The modern origins debate and a renewed understanding of mortality — Gould and Eldridge’s punctuation meets Boserup’s intensification: toward a new understanding of the Upper Paleolithic.
• II. Domestication, agriculture, and the rise of the state. 3. Agricultural revolutions. Energy — Changing climates: the end of the Pleistocene — New climate science, new archaeological science — Human adaptation at the Bølling-Allerød warming: the Mesolithic — The younger Dryas and the early Holocene: cereal domestication in the northern mid-latitudes — Early Holocene warming and tropical domestications — Into the mid-Holocene: final domestications and first dispersals — 4. The mid-Holocene, the late Neolithic, and the urban-state revolution. The emergence of modern global climates: the mid-Holocene transition — The mid-Holocene crisis and the rise of the state — Neolithic intensification: the secondary products revolution — China and Mesopotamia in the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition — 5. Human well-being from the Paleolithic to the rise of the state. Human health in the Paleolithic — The Neolithic demographic transition — Civilizational stresses in the Neolithic — Fertility and mortality in the Neolithic — Fertility, mortality, and the origins of complex societies: the case of Southwest Asia.
• III. Ancient and medieval agrarian societies. 6. Stasis and growth in the epoch of agrarian empires. Getting ahead, running in place, falling behind — Population growth and Dark Ages — Endogenous degradations? — Late Holocene climate reversals — Disease and epidemics — Energy: innovation, labor, and slavery — Punctuations — 7. Optimum and crisis in early civilizations, 3000-500 BC. The Old World Bronze Age: expansions and crises, 3000-1000 BC — The preclassical crisis and the Age of Iron, 1200-300 BC — A global view on optimum and crisis — Human health in the Bronze Age Optimum and the Iron Age/preclassical crisis — 8. A global antiquity, 500 BC-AD 542. The problem of growth in antiquity — China, iron, and rotary power — Global antiquity: numbers and climate — The rise of Rome — The fall of Rome? — 9. The global Dark and Middle ages, AD 542-1350. Climate reversals in the tropics and the north — The Dark Ages, AD 400-900 — The medieval climate anomaly, AD 900-1275 — Population and health in the Old World Dark and Middle ages — Growth and crisis in the medieval world, 1000-1350 — Southern Asia — North America — China and Mongolia — Into the little Ice Age — Europe — The little Ice Age and the Black Death.
• IV. Into the modern condition. 10. Climate, demography, economy, and polity in the late medieval-early modern world, 1350-1700. — Population in and beyond the third age of epidemics, 1300-1800 — The question of growth and divergence — The aftermath of the third age of epidemics — Emerging European empires, New World depopulation — The little Ice Age, New World depopulation, and the origins of the African slave trade — The little Ice Age and early modern Eurasia — Early modern England in the age of empire, the little Ice Age, and the seventeenth-century crisis — The seventeenth-century English energy revolution — 11. Global transformations: Atlantic origins, 1700-1870. The end of the little Ice Age and the beginning of modern population growth, 1700-1860s. The beginnings of the modern Anthropocene — Industrial revolutions — The first industrial revolution — Emissions and atmosphere, 1800-1880 — 12. Launching modern growth: 1870 to 1945. Urbanization, a new political economy, and the second Industrial Revolution — Atlantic cities and the first wave: environmental crisis and social reform — The second Industrial Revolution — The demographic revolution, 1800-1945 — 1914-1945: a world in crisis, growth on hold — Environmental impacts, 1870-1945: the second wave — 13. Growth beyond limits: 1945 to present. The demographic revolution, part II: 1945 to present — The age of high growth and a third Industrial Revolution? the world economy, 1945 to present — Environmental impacts, 1945 to present: confronting the third wave — The modern Anthropocene.
• Coda: A rough journey into an uncertain future. Malthus vindicated? — Deniers, pessimists, and pragmatists.

Subjects:

• Climatic changes — History.
• Nature — Effect of human beings on.
• Human beings — Effect of climate on.
• World history.

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