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.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

PALGRAVE HANDBOOKS.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--History.

Climatic changes.

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

Climatology.

Climatology--History--Sources.

Climatology--History--Case studies.

Climatology--Sociological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 656 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color.

Other Title:

Handbook of climate history

Climate history

Place of Publication:

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

Contents:

1. General Introduction: Weather, Climate, and Human History / Christian Pfister, Sam White, and Franz Mauelshagen

I. Reconstruction :

2. The Global Climate System / Eduardo Zorita, Sebastian Wagner, Fredrik Schenk

3. Archives of Nature and Archives of Societies / Stefan Brönnimann, Christian Pfister, 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, 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, Heinz J. Zumbühl

9. Analysis and interpretation: Homogenization of instrumental data / Ingeborg Auer

10. Analysis and interpretation: Calibration-verification / Petr Dobrovolný

11. Analysis and Interpretation: Temperature and Precipitation Indices / Christian Pfister, Chantal Camenisch, Petr Dobrovolný

12. Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate Field Reconstructions / Jürg Luterbacher, Eduardo Zorita

13. Analysis and interpretation: Modeling of past climates / Eduardo Zorita, Sebastian Wagner

14. The denial of global warming / Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway, David J. Karoly, Joelle Gergis, Urs Neu, Christian Pfister.

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 China: 2000 years of climate reconstruction from historical documents / Quansheng Ge, Zhixin Hao, Jingyun Zheng, Yang Liu

18. Climate history of Asia (excluding China) / George C.D. Adamson, David J. Nash

19. Climate history in Latin America / María del Rosario Prieto, Facundo 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, Don Garden

22. European Middle Ages / Christian Rohr, Chantal Camenisch, Kathleen Pribyl

23. Early modern Europe / Christian Pfister, Rudolf Brázdil, Jürg Luterbacher, Astrid E.J. Ogilvie, Sam White

24. North American climate history (1500-1800) / Sam White

25. Climate from 1800 to 1970 in North America and Europe / Stefan Brönnimann, Sam White, Victoria Slonosky

26. Global warming (1970-present) / Stefan Brönnimann.

III. Climate and Society :

27. Climate, weather, agriculture, and food / Sam White, John Brooke, 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.

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, James Hamilton

35. A year without a summer, 1816 / Christian Pfister, Sam White.

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 / Ruth A. Morgan

38. From climatology to climate science in the twentieth century / Matthias Heymann, Dania Achermann.

Notes:

"Palgrave handbooks"--Spine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781137430205 (electronic bk.)

1137430206 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99994123966

99978598536

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