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The Weather in the Imagination

Out of Print
By: Lucian Boia
224 pages, no illustrations
Publisher: Reaktion Books
The Weather in the Imagination
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  • The Weather in the Imagination ISBN: 9781861892140 Paperback Jan 2005 Out of Print #152369
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Volume on the cultural history of weather.

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The Weather in the Imagination analyses the theories and scenarios caused by climate. These fall into three main categories: anthropological and psychological; historical; catastrophic. The weather has long served as a means of explaining human diversity: other people are different because they live under different skies. Climate has also been used to explain the dynamic of the historical process, the rise of certain civilizations and the stagnation or regression of others. Catastrophe is also invoked in theories of the weather: what could destroy a civilization - or arouse the fear of humanity's total extinction - more effectively than a good climatic `jolt'? The prototype of this kind of upheaval is the Flood, one of the most gripping and influential myths the human imagination has ever produced.

Lucian Boia does not take sides in the current debates about climate; he does not exaggerate or play down global warming and its consequences, or try to forecast the future. What he does tell is a story that runs parallel with the `true' story of climate and its future: the story of a human imagination that has been stimulated, baffled, infuriated, and
sometimes even terrified, by the weather.


Lucian Boia is Professor of History at the University of Bucharest. His previous books include Romania: Borderland of Europe (Reaktion, 2001), and Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity (Reaktion, 2004).

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Lucian Boia is Professor of History at the University of Bucharest. His previous books include Romania: Borderland of Europe (Reaktion, 2001), and Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity (Reaktion, 2004).
Out of Print
By: Lucian Boia
224 pages, no illustrations
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Today it's not just the British who are obsessed by the weather, but the whole world. Lucian Boia's timely book places current concerns about climate change into context and shows that people have been anxiously studying the sky for portents of doom since the beginning of history ... His "cultural history of climate" is dry in places, but has plenty of illuminating interludes. The Guardian Boia reflects on the psychological and physical impact weather has had on history in the myths and memories of civilisations typified by the great flood - or in shaping them. In doing so, he brings breadth and clarity to a much overlooked but historically profound subject. The Herald, Glasgow
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