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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, Sam, 1980- editor.

Pfister, Christian, editor.

Mauelshagen, Franz, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatology--History--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Climatology.

History.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 656 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[London, United Kingdom] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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 Pfister

Part 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 Mauelshagen

Part 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.

Notes:

"Palgrave handbooks"--Spine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1137430192

9781137430199

1349682608

9781349682607

OCLC:

934193528

Publisher Number:

99978598536