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Environment in History: International Perspectives

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Weathering Fields

Climate, Food and Famine in History

Edited by Eleanor Shaw and Dr. Robert Naylor

258 pages,

ISBN  978-1-80768-110-4 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (March 2027)

eISBN 978-1-80768-111-1 eBook


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"This is a highly welcome volume analyzing the complex and contingent relations between climate, food and famine. [...] The volume is a strong historical contribution to counter tendencies of climate determinism and climate reductionism and the use of climate as a tool for depoliticization. " — Matthias Heymann, Aarhus University

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Weathering Fields explores the meanings that people and societies have ascribed to the relationships between climate, famine events and food supplies. Bringing historical perspectives into conversation with contemporary understandings of environment and climate change, it reveals the diversity and local specificity of climate–food interactions while tracing the connections between local experiences and broader global understandings. Case studies range from early modern Korea and seventeenth-Century North-East England, to nineteenth-Century Anatolia and 1920s East Africa. Weathering Fields demonstrates that hunger is fundamentally political, revealing how social relations and power structures have shaped historical experiences of climate, food and famine. In doing so it emphasises the importance of political and social domains for making meaningful change.

Dr Eleanor Shaw is a historian of medicine and currently Early Career Research Fellow at the British Library. Before entering academia she worked in aid and development, delivering health interventions around the world. She is interested in the intersections between health, social movements and organisations.

Dr Robert Naylor is a lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester and a visiting fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University. He is interested in the social and political history of climate and economy and is the president of the International Commission for the History of Meteorology.

Subject: Environmental Studies (General)History (General)Sustainable Development Goals


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