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• 'The Climate of History: Four Theses' by Dipesh Chakrabarty

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  An influential journal article assessing the significance of climate change for historical scholarship, and offering a critique of approaches that limit themselves to an economic analysis of the phenomenon. Published in Critical Inquiry Vol. 35, No.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Is Environmental History?

  Hughes, J. Donald (Johnson Donald), 1932-

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  Essentially a long bibliographic essay, this is a superb historiographical survey of this subfield of the discipline, and would be a great place to start before reading other items on this list.

• Living in a Dangerous Climate

  Climate Change and Human Evolution

  Hetherington, Renée

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• Climate Change in Prehistory

  the End of the Reign of Chaos

  Burroughs, William James

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• Climate Change and the Health of Nations

  Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations

  McMichael, A. J. (Anthony J.),

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  A combination of climate history and historical epidemiology.

• The Long Summer

  How Climate Changed Civilization

  Fagan, Brian M.

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  Fagan has made a career of documenting climatic influences on human history.

• Floods, Famines, and Emperors

  El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations

  Fagan, Brian M.

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• The Great Warming

  Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

  Fagan, Brian M.

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• The Little Ice Age

  How Climate Made History, 1300-1850

  Fagan, Brian M.

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• The Fate of Rome

  Climate, Disease, and the End of An Empire

  Harper, Kyle, 1979-

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• The Third Horseman

  Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century

  Rosen, William, 1955-

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• Global Crisis

  War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

  Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-

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• Six Degrees

  Our Future on a Hotter Planet

  Lynas, Mark, 1973-

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  This book and the two below offer sometimes frightening predictions of the future that awaits if climate change mitigation efforts fail or are inadequate.

• Climate Wars

  the Fight for Survival as the World Overheats

  Dyer, Gwynne

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  Alarming if not always believable...a sort of guilty pleasure.

• The Collapse of Western Civilization

  a View From the Future

  Oreskes, Naomi,

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