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The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History

Gebonden Engels 2018 9781137430199
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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.

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ISBN13:9781137430199
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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1. General Introduction: Weather, Climate, and Human History

Part I Reconstruction

2. The Global Climate System

3. Archives of Nature and Archives of Societies

4. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Documentary Evidence—Overview

5. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Personal Documentary Sources

6. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Institutional Sources

7. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Early Instrumental Observations

8. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Historical Sources in Glaciology

9. Analysis and Interpretation: Homogenization of Instrumental Data

10. Analysis and Interpretation: Calibration-Verification

11. Analysis and Interpretation: Temperature and Precipitation Indices

12. Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate Field Reconstructions

13. Analysis and Interpretation: Modeling of Past Climates

14. The Denial of Global Warming

Part II Historical Climatology: Periods and Regions

15. The Holocene

16. Mediterranean Antiquity

17. China: 2000 Years of Climate Reconstruction from Historical Documents

18. Climate History of Asia (Excluding China)

19. Climate History in Latin America

20. A Multi-Century History of Drought and Wetter Conditions in Africa

21. Recent Developments in Australian Climate History

22. European Middle Ages

23. Early Modern Europe

24. North American Climate History (1500–1800)

25. Climate from 1800 to 1970 in North America and Europe

26. Global Warming (1970–Present)

Part III Climate and Society

27. Climate, Weather, Agriculture, and Food

28. Climate, Ecology, and Infectious Human Disease

29. Climate Change and Conflict

30. Narrating Indigenous Histories of Climate Change in the Americas and Pacific

31. Migration and Climate in World History

Part IV Case Studies in Climate Reconstruction and Impacts

32. The Climate Downturn of 536–50

33. The 1310s Event

34. The 1780s: Global Climate Anomalies, Floods, Droughts, and Famines

35. A Year Without a Summer, 1816

Part V The History of Climate Ideas and Climate Science

36. Climate as a Scientific Paradigm—Early History of Climatology to 1800

37. Climate and Empire in the Nineteenth Century.- 38. From Climatology to Climate Science in the Twentieth Century.

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