Binding: Hardcover
Description: What causes Ice Ages? How did we learn about them? What were their affects on the social history of humanity? Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery of Ice Ages. How we learned that much of the Earth was repeatedly covered by huge ice sheets why that occurred and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and ultimately our present social structures. The book discusses implications for the current 'controversies over anthropogenic climate change public understanding of science and (lack of) 'trust in experts'. In parallel to the history and science of Ice Ages sociologist Mazur highlights why this is especially relevant right now for humanity. Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History is an engrossing combination of natural science and social history: glaciology and sociology writ large.
Title: Ice Ages Their Social And Natural History
Author(s): Mazur Allan (Syracuse University New York)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781316519400
Pages: 272 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 4/21/2022
Category: The Earth: Natural History General