The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv
 General Introduction: Weather, Climate, and Human History  (Christian Pfister, Sam White, Franz Mauelshagen)....Pages 1-17
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
 The Global Climate System  (Eduardo Zorita, Sebastian Wagner, Fredrik Schenk)....Pages 21-26
 Archives of Nature and Archives of Societies  (Stefan Brönnimann, Christian Pfister, Sam White)....Pages 27-36
 Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Documentary Evidence—Overview  (Christian Pfister)....Pages 37-47
 Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Personal Documentary Sources  (Christian Pfister, Sam White)....Pages 49-65
 Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Institutional Sources  (Christian Pfister)....Pages 67-81
 Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Early Instrumental Observations  (Dario Camuffo)....Pages 83-92
 Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Historical Sources in Glaciology  (Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Heinz J. Zumbühl)....Pages 93-97
 Analysis and Interpretation: Homogenization of Instrumental Data  (Ingeborg Auer)....Pages 99-105
 Analysis and Interpretation: Calibration-Verification  (Petr Dobrovolný)....Pages 107-113
 Analysis and Interpretation: Temperature and Precipitation Indices  (Christian Pfister, Chantal Camenisch, Petr Dobrovolný)....Pages 115-129
 Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate Field Reconstructions  (Jürg Luterbacher, Eduardo Zorita)....Pages 131-139
 Analysis and Interpretation: Modeling of Past Climates  (Eduardo Zorita, Sebastian Wagner)....Pages 141-148
 The Denial of Global Warming  (Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway, David J. Karoly, Joelle Gergis, Urs Neu, Christian Pfister)....Pages 149-171
Front Matter ....Pages 173-173
 The Holocene  (John L. Brooke)....Pages 175-182
 Mediterranean Antiquity  (Peregrine Horden)....Pages 183-188
 China: 2000 Years of Climate Reconstruction from Historical Documents  (Quansheng Ge, Zhixin Hao, Jingyun Zheng, Yang Liu)....Pages 189-201
 Climate History of Asia (Excluding China)  (George C. D. Adamson, David J. Nash)....Pages 203-211
 Climate History in Latin America  (María del Rosario Prieto, Facundo Rojas)....Pages 213-224
 A Multi-Century History of Drought and Wetter Conditions in Africa  (Sharon E. Nicholson)....Pages 225-236
 Recent Developments in Australian Climate History  (Joëlle Gergis, Linden Ashcroft, Don Garden)....Pages 237-245
 European Middle Ages  (Christian Rohr, Chantal Camenisch, Kathleen Pribyl)....Pages 247-263
 Early Modern Europe  (Christian Pfister, Rudolf Brázdil, Jürg Luterbacher, Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Sam White)....Pages 265-295
 North American Climate History (1500–1800)  (Sam White)....Pages 297-308
 Climate from 1800 to 1970 in North America and Europe  (Stefan Brönnimann, Sam White, Victoria Slonosky)....Pages 309-320
 Global Warming (1970–Present)  (Stefan Brönnimann)....Pages 321-328
Front Matter ....Pages 329-329
 Climate, Weather, Agriculture, and Food  (Sam White, John Brooke, Christian Pfister)....Pages 331-353
 Climate, Ecology, and Infectious Human Disease  (James L. A. Webb)....Pages 355-365
 Climate Change and Conflict  (Dagomar Degroot)....Pages 367-385
 Narrating Indigenous Histories of Climate Change in the Americas and Pacific  (Thomas Wickman)....Pages 387-411
 Migration and Climate in World History  (Franz Mauelshagen)....Pages 413-444
Front Matter ....Pages 445-445
 The Climate Downturn of 536–50  (Timothy P. Newfield)....Pages 447-493
 The 1310s Event  (Philip Slavin)....Pages 495-515
 The 1780s: Global Climate Anomalies, Floods, Droughts, and Famines  (Vinita Damodaran, Rob Allan, Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Gaston R. Demarée, Joëlle Gergis, Takehiko Mikami et al.)....Pages 517-550
 A Year Without a Summer, 1816  (Christian Pfister, Sam White)....Pages 551-561
Front Matter ....Pages 563-563
 Climate as a Scientific Paradigm—Early History of Climatology to 1800  (Franz Mauelshagen)....Pages 565-588
 Climate and Empire in the Nineteenth Century  (Ruth A. Morgan)....Pages 589-603
 From Climatology to Climate Science in the Twentieth Century  (Matthias Heymann, Dania Achermann)....Pages 605-632
Back Matter ....Pages 633-656