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The Palgrave handbook of climate history, Sam White, Christian Pfister, Franz Mauelshagen, editors

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The Palgrave handbook of climate history

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Sam White, Christian Pfister, Franz Mauelshagen, editors

This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies. Bringing together dozens of international specialists from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the methods, sources, and major findings of historical climate reconstruction and impact research. Its chapters take the reader through each key source of past climate and weather information and each technique of analysis; through each historical period and region of the world; through the major topics of climate and history and core case studies; and finally through the history of climate ideas and science. Using clear, non-technical language, The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History serves as a textbook for students, a reference guide for specialists and an introduction to climate history for scholars and interested readers

1: General Introduction: Weather, Climate, and Human History / Christian Pfister, Sam White, and Franz Mauelshagen -- Part I. Reconstruction. 2: The Global Climate System / Eduardo Zorita, Sebastian Wagner, and Fredrik Schenk -- 3: Archives of Nature and Archives of Societies / Stefan Brönnimann, Christian Pfister, and Sam White -- 4: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Documentary Evidence-Overview / Christian Pfister -- 5: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Personal Documentary Sources / Christian Pfister and Sam White -- 6: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Institutional Sources / Christian Pfister -- 7: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Early Instrumental Observations / Dario Camuffo -- 8: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Historical sources in glaciology / Samuel U. Nussbaumer and Heinz J. Zumbühl -- 9: Analysis and interpretation: Homogenization of instrumental data / Ingeborg Auder -- 10: Analysis and interpretation: Calibration-verification / Petr Dobrovolný -- 11: Analysis and Interpretation: Temperature and Precipitation Indices / Christian Pfister, Chantal Camenisch, and Petr Dobrovolný -- 12: Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate Field Reconstructions / Jürg Luterbacher and Eduardo Zorita -- 13: Analysis and interpretation: Modeling of past climates / Eduardo Zorita and Sebastian Wagner -- 14: The denial of global warming / Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway, David J. Karoly, Joelle Gergis, Urs Neu, and Christian PfisterPart II. Historical climatology: Periods and regions. 15: The holocene / John L. Brooke -- 16: Mediterranean antiquity / Peregrine Horden -- 17: China: 2000 years of climate reconstruction from historical documents / Quansheng Ge, Zhixin Hao, Jingyun Zheng, and Yang Liu -- 18: Climate history of Asia (excluding China) / George C. D. Adamson and David J. Nash -- 19: Climate history in Latin America / María del Rosario Prieto and Facunto Rojas -- 20: A multi-century history of drought and wetter conditions in Africa / Sharon E. Nicholson -- 21: Recent developments in Australian climate history / Joëlle Gergis, Linden Ashcroft, and Don Garden -- 22. European Middle Ages / Christian Rohr, Chantal Camenisch, and Kathleen Pribyl -- 23: Early modern Europe / Christian Pfister, Rudolf Brázdil, Jürg Luterbacher, Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, and Sam White -- 24: North American climate history (1500-1800) / Sam White -- Climate from 1800 to 1970 in North America and Europe / Stefan Brönnimann, Sam White, and Victoria Slonosky -- 26: Global warming (1970-present) / Stefan Brönnimann -- Part III. Climate and society. 27: Climate, weather, agriculture, and food / Sam White, John Brooke, and Christian Pfister -- 28: Climate, ecology, and infectious human disease / James L. A. Webb -- 29: Climate change and conflict / Dagomar Degroot -- 30: Narrating indigenous histories of climate change in the Americas and Pacific / Thomas Wickman -- 31: Migration and climate in world history / Franz MauelshagenPart IV. Case studies in climate reconstruction and impacts. 32: The climate downturn of 536-50 / Timothy P. Newfield -- 33: The 1310s event / Philip Slavin -- 34: The 1780s: Global climate anomalies, floods, droughts, and famines / Vinita Damodaran, Rob Allan, Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Gaston R. Demarée, Joëlle Gergis, Takehiko Mikami, Alan Mikhail, Sharon E. Nicholson, Stefan Norrgård, and James Hamilton -- 35: A year without summer, 1816 / Christian Pfister and Sam White -- Part V. The history of climate ideas and climate science. 36: Climate as a scientific paradigm-Early history of climatology to 1800 / Franz Mauelshagen -- 37: Climate and empire in the nineteeth century / Rugh A. Morgan -- 38: From climatology to climate science in the twentieth century / Matthias Heymann and Dania Achermann