Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the

From the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, whic

The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century.

"A Temperate Empire explores the ways that colonists studied and tried to remake local climates in New England and Nova Scotia according to their plans for sett

Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge