Author: Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0691168628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruption When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano’s massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale. Here, Gillen D’Arcy Wood traces Tambora’s global and historical reach: how the volcano’s three-year climate change regime initiated the first worldwide cholera pandemic, expanded opium markets in China, and plunged the United States into its first economic depression. Bringing the history of this planetary emergency to life, Tambora sheds light on the fragile interdependence of climate and human societies to offer a cautionary tale about the potential tragic impacts of drastic climate change in our own century.
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 1062
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 1064
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leslie Clarkson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2001-11-15
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0191543675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how this changed over time. The authors explore the economic and social forces which lay behind these changes as well as the more personal motives of taste, preference, and acceptability. They analyze the reasons why the potato became a major component of the diet for so many people during the eighteenth century as well as the diets of the middling and upper classes. This is not, however, simply a social history of food but it is a nutritional one as well, and the authors go on to explore the connection between eating, health, and disease. They look at the relationship between the supply of food and the growth of the population and then finally, and unavoidably in any history of the Irish and food, the issue of famine, examining first its likelihood and then its dreadful reality when it actually occurred.
Author: R. D. Collison Black
Publisher: New York : A. M. Kelley
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 652
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 450
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 844
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