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When Weather Changed the Course of History
Written by Caroline Winterer
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How have weather disasters shaped human history, and what can this tell us about how we think about climate change today? This lecture addresses these questions.
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Caroline Winterer
Caroline Winterer is an American historian and the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University. Previously the director of the Stanford Humanities Center, she received her bachelor's degree from Pomona College and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of the American Ingenuity Award, Smithsonian Institution, for mapping the social network of Benjamin Franklin.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Wanted to listen to this as the content sounded really interesting but the audio quality made it quite difficult to listen to - sadly did not finish this lecture.