There is a growing recognition that adaptation to climate change requires an understanding
of social processes that unfold across extended temporal trajectories. Yet, despite a move to …

Constructing the World Polity brings together in one collection the theoretical ideas of one of
the most influential International Relations theorists of our time. These essays, with a new …

A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching
consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of …

When business is bad, as the Chinese proverb goes, paint the store. The social sciences
unendingly seem to be repainting the store with new fads, yet business remains bad. Some …

This monograph provides an overview of research into disasters from a historical
perspective, making two new contributions. First, it introduces the field of 'disaster studies' to …

This paper argues that the climate came to take on a geophysical rather than a bioecological
form in global governance because it emerged from a dynamic, interactive process between …

For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia's ox-plow agricultural system was the most
efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of …

In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global
climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century …

The developmental trajectories of North China and the Southeast Coast during the middle
and late imperial periods are surveyed to illustrate the recurrence of regional macrocycles of …