Climate change and the course of global history : a rough journey

 Content: Machine generated contents note: 1. Geological Time: The Court Jester on the Platform of Life --
 Tectonics, Asteroids, Plumes, Punctuation, Gaia: Revolutions in Earth Science --
 Evolution: From Neo-Darwinism to Complex Emergence --
 A Punctuated Earth Systems Synthesis --
 Origins: The Hadean and the Archean --
 The Archean/Paleo-Proterozoic Crisis --
 The Neoproterozoic Crisis and the Cambrian: A Snowball Earth? --
 Phanerozoic Super-Cycles --
 and Biotic Extinctions and Escalations --
 Mass Extinctions --
 2. Human Emergence --
 Into the Cenozoic Icehouse --
 The Court Jester in the Cenozoic: Debate and Three Kinds of Evidence --
 Miocene Apes and the Early Hominins --
 Orbital Cycles: From the 23K World to the 41K World --
 The 41K World and the Genus Homo --
 The 100K World: Homo Heidelbergensis, Archaic Homo Sapiens --
 Modern Humans in the 100K World --
 The Modern Origins Debate and a Renewed Understanding of Mortality --
 Gould and Eldridge's Punctuation Meets Boserup's Intensification: Toward a New Understanding of the Upper Paleolithic 3. Agricultural Revolutions --
 Energy --
 Changing Climates: The End of the Pleistocene --
 New Climate Science, New Archaeological Science --
 Human Adaptation at the Balling-Allerad Warming: The Mesolithic --
 The Younger Dryas and the Early Holocene: Cereal Domestication in the Northern Mid-Latitudes --
 Early Holocene Warming and Tropical Domestications --
 Into the Mid-Holocene: Final Domestications and First Dispersals --
 4. The Mid-Holocene, the Late Neolithic, and the Urban-State Revolution --
 The Emergence of Modern Global Climates: The Mid-Holocene Transition --
 The Mid-Holocene Crisis and the Rise of the State --
 Neolithic Intensification: The Secondary Products Revolution --
 China and Mesopotamia in the Neolithic-Bronze Age Transition --
 5. Human Well-Being from the Paleolithic to the Rise of the State --
 Human Health in the Paleolithic --
 The Neolithic Demographic Transition --
 Civilizational Stresses in the Neolithic --
 Fertility and Mortality in the Neolithic --
 Fertility, Mortality, and the Origins of Complex Societies: The Case of Southwest Asia 6. Stasis and Growth in the Epoch of Agrarian Empires --
 Getting Ahead, Running in Place, Falling Behind --
 Population Growth and Dark Ages --
 Endogenous Degradations? --
 Late Holocene Climate Reversals --
 Disease and Epidemics --
 Energy: Innovation, Labor, and Slavery --
 Punctuations --
 7. Optimum and Crisis in Early Civilizations, 3000-500 BC --
 The Old World Bronze Age: Expansions and Crises, 3000-1000 BC --
 The Preclassical Crisis and the Age of Iron, 1200-300 BC --
 A Global View on Optimum and Crisis --
 Human Health in the Bronze Age Optimum and the Iron Age/Preclassical Crisis --
 8. A Global Antiquity, 500 BC-AD 542 --
 The Problem of Growth in Antiquity --
 China, Iron, and Rotary Power --
 Global Antiquity: Numbers and Climate --
 The Rise of Rome --
 The Fall of Rome? --
 9. The Global Dark and Middle Ages, AD 542-1350 --
 Climate Reversals in the Tropics and the North --
 The Dark Ages, AD 400-900 --
 The Medieval Climate Anomaly, AD 900-1275 --
 Population and Health in the Old World Dark and Middle Ages Growth and Crisis in the Medieval World, 1000-1350 --
 Southern Asia --
 North America --
 China and Mongolia --
 Into the Little Ice Age --
 Europe --
 The Little Ice Age and the Black Death --
 10. Climate, Demography, Economy, and Polity in the Late Medieval-Early Modern World, 1350-1700 --
 Population in and beyond the Third Age of Epidemics, 1300-1800 --
 The Question of Growth and Divergence --
 The Aftermath of the Third Age of Epidemics --
 Emerging European Empires, New World Depopulation --
 The Little Ice Age, New World Depopulation, and the Origins of the African Slave Trade --
 The Little Ice Age and Early Modern Eurasia --
 Early Modern England in the Age of Empire, the Little Ice Age, and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis --
 The Seventeenth-Century English Energy Revolution --
 11. Global Transformations: Atlantic Origins, 1700-1870 --
 The End of the Little Ice Age and the Beginning of Modern Population Growth, 1700-1860's --
 The Beginnings of the Modern Anthropocene --
 Industrial Revolutions --
 The First Industrial Revolution --
 Emissions and Atmosphere, 1800-1880 12. Launching Modern Growth: 1870 to 1945 --
 Urbanization, a New Political Economy, and the Second Industrial Revolution --
 Atlantic Cities and the First Wave: Environmental Crisis and Social Reform --
 The Second Industrial Revolution --
 The Demographic Revolution, 1800-1945 --
 1914-1945: A World in Crisis, Growth on Hold --
 Environmental Impacts, 1870-1945: The Second Wave --
 13. Growth beyond Limits: 1945 to Present --
 The Demographic Revolution, Part II: 1945 to Present --
 The Age of High Growth and a Third Industrial Revolution? The World Economy, 1945 to Present --
 Environmental Impacts, 1945 to Present: Confronting the Third Wave --
 The Modern Anthropocene --
 Malthus Vindicated? --
 Deniers, Pessimists, and Pragmatists.