Times of Feast, Times of Famine: A History of Climate Since the Year 1000
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374521226 (0374521220)
Publish date: October 1st 1988
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Edition language: English
First published in 1967 and only slightly updated since, this is a pioneering work on the study of climate by historians. Le Roy Ladurie's main concern is to make a case for the careful and systematic historical investigation of climate evidence; to lay out the kind of sources that a historian could...