The Palgrave handbook of climate history. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of climate history; Climate history
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sam White, Christian Pfister, Franz Mauelshagen.
• Editors: White, Sam, 1980-; Pfister, Christian; Mauelshagen, Franz, 1967-
• Contents: 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: DocumentaryEvidence—Overview5.Evidence from the Archives of Societies: PersonalDocumentary Sources6. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Institutional Sources7. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Early InstrumentalObservations8.Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Historical Sourcesin Glaciology9.Analysis and Interpretation: Homogenization of InstrumentalData10. Analysis and Interpretation: Calibration-Verification11.Analysis and Interpretation: Temperature and PrecipitationIndices12.Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate FieldReconstructions13. 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 HistoricalDocuments18. Climate History of Asia (Excluding China)19. Climate History in Latin America20. A Multi-Century History of Drought and Wetter Conditionsin 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 Changein 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 Historyof Climatology to 180037. Climate and Empire in the Nineteenth Century.- 38.From Climatology to Climate Science in the TwentiethCentury.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 551.609; Climatology -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137430205
• Related ISBNs: 9781137430199
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