Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies
in the School of Historical Studies, has co-edited Empires and
Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity (Cambridge University
Press, 2018), which offers an integrated picture of Rome...
Half a century ago a French historian of rural Languedoc
published a history of climate and people: climate changes, is
subject to fluctuations, and (since history is about change)
climate is the object of history.2 Le Roy Ladurie’s implied
(if...
How can historians contribute to investigating the
relationships between climate change, ecology, and human activity?
Scientific research is making available volumes of data on the
possible correlations between environmental change and
social...
In his recent book Global Crisis: War, Climate Change &
Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, Geoffrey Parker
states: “although climate change can and does produce human
catastrophe, few historians include the weather in their analyses.”
This is...
In March, Professor Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor
in East Asian Studies in the School of Historical Studies, brought
together twelve international scholars who participated in a
workshop that explored “The Sense of the Past among Inner...
