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The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History

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656 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am20.08.20181st ed. 2018
This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies.mehr
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KlappentextThis handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-137-43019-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum20.08.2018
Auflage1st ed. 2018
Seiten656 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht1184 g
IllustrationenXXV, 656 p. 80 illus.
Artikel-Nr.36755675

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. General Introduction: Weather, Climate, and Human HistoryPart I Reconstruction2. The Global Climate System3. Archives of Nature and Archives of Societies4. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Documentary Evidence-Overview5. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Personal Documentary Sources6. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Institutional Sources7. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Early Instrumental Observations8. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Historical Sources in Glaciology9. Analysis and Interpretation: Homogenization of Instrumental Data10. Analysis and Interpretation: Calibration-Verification11. Analysis and Interpretation: Temperature and Precipitation Indices12. Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate Field Reconstructions13. Analysis and Interpretation: Modeling of Past Climates14. The Denial of Global WarmingPart II Historical Climatology: Periods and Regions15. The Holocene16. Mediterranean Antiquity17. China: 2000 Years of Climate Reconstruction from Historical Documents18. Climate History of Asia (Excluding China)19. Climate History in Latin America20. A Multi-Century History of Drought and Wetter Conditions in Africa21. Recent Developments in Australian Climate History22. European Middle Ages23. Early Modern Europe24. North American Climate History (1500-1800)25. Climate from 1800 to 1970 in North America and Europe26. Global Warming (1970-Present)Part III Climate and Society27. Climate, Weather, Agriculture, and Food28. Climate, Ecology, and Infectious Human Disease29. Climate Change and Conflict30. Narrating Indigenous Histories of Climate Change in the Americas and Pacific31. Migration and Climate in World HistoryPart IV Case Studies in Climate Reconstruction and Impacts32. The Climate Downturn of 536-5033. The 1310s Event34. The 1780s: Global Climate Anomalies, Floods, Droughts, and Famines35. A Year Without a Summer, 1816Part V The History of Climate Ideas and Climate Science36. Climate as a Scientific Paradigm-Early History of Climatology to 180037. Climate and Empire in the Nineteenth Century.- 38. From Climatology to Climate Science in the Twentieth Century.mehr
Kritik
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2019
"They provide the most comprehensive treatment to date of historical climate and society interactions and should serve as an excellent source for a range of readers interested in this emerging topic. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers." (J. Schoof, Choice, Vol. 56 (7), March, 2019)mehr

Schlagworte

Autor

Sam White is Associate Professor of Environmental History at the Ohio State University, USA and author of the award-winning book The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (2011), among other publications. He is also co-founder and director of the Climate History Network.
Christian Pfister is Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has published 11 books and more than 200 articles. He is co-founder of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH).
Franz Mauelshagen is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. He has published several books, including the award-winning Wunderkammer auf Papier (A Cabinet of Curiosities on Paper, 2011), and more than 50 articles on the history of science, disasters, climate, and the Anthropocene.
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