On the Climates of History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. On the Climates of History 1
5. Measuring the Impact of Climate on History: The Search for Appropriate Methodologies 19
6. Past Climates from Unexploited Written Sources 51
7. Epidemics and Famine in the Little Ice Age 63
8. The Little Ice Age: Thermal and Wetness Indices for Central Europe 85
9. Severe Drought and Recent History 117
10. Climate and Documentary Sources: A Comment 133
11. The Impact of Climate on Political, Social, and Economic Change: A Comment 139
12. Climate and the Role of the Sun 145
13. The Reconstruction of Climatic Sequences from Botanical Data 169
14. Past Climate Reconstructed from Tree Rings 193
15. Isotope Evidence for Past Climatic and Environmental Change 215
16. Botanical and Chemical Evidence of Climatic Change: A Comment 233
17. Climate and History: Priorities for Research 241
18. The Historian and the Climatologist 251
19. Grape Harvests from the Fifteenth through the Nineteenth Centuries 259
20. Analysis of Viticultural Data by Cumulative Deviations 271
21. The Contributors 279