Climate and History: Studies in Interdisciplinary History

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Climate and History

Studies in Interdisciplinary History

Edited by: Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1981

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The effect of climate on historical change represents an exciting frontier for reading and research. In this volume scholars contribute to an area of interdisciplinary study which has not been systematically explored by climatologists and historians working together.

Originally published in 1981.

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Geosciences Atmospheric Science and Climatology

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
On the Climates of History Reid A. Bryson and Christine Padoch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Measuring the Impact of Climate on History: The Search for Appropriate Methodologies Jan de Vries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Past Climates from Unexploited Written Sources Helmut Ε. Landsberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Epidemics and Famine in the Little Ice Age Andrew Β. Appleby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
The Little Ice Age: Thermal and Wetness Indices for Central Europe Christian Pfister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Severe Drought and Recent History Jerome Namias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Climate and Documentary Sources: A Comment David Herlihy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
The Impact of Climate on Political, Social, and Economic Change: A Comment John D. Post Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Climate and the Role of the Sun John A. Eddy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
The Reconstruction of Climatic Sequences from Botanical Data Thompson Webb III Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Past Climate Reconstructed from Tree Rings Harold C. Fritts, G. Robert Lofgren and Geoffrey A. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Isotope Evidence for Past Climatic and Environmental Change Alexander Τ. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Botanical and Chemical Evidence of Climatic Change: A Comment Donald G. Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Climate and History: Priorities for Research David Hackett Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
The Historian and the Climatologist Theodore Κ. Rabb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Grape Harvests from the Fifteenth through the Nineteenth Centuries Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and Micheline Baulant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Analysis of Viticultural Data by Cumulative Deviations Barbara Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
The Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

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Climate; Drought; Dendrochronology; Paleoclimatology; Climatology; Little Ice Age; Year; Solar cycle; Weather; Climate change; Maunder Minimum; Measurement; Peat; Proxy (climate); Sunspot; Temperate climate; North America; Phenology; Polder; Agriculture; Meteorology; Year Without a Summer; Sediment; Subsistence crisis; Medieval Warm Period; Holocene; Anticyclone; Aurora; Disaster; Intertropical Convergence Zone; Weather and climate; Ice sheet; Historical climatology; Suess effect; Before Present; Paul Julian (meteorologist); Drought in California; Precipitation; Dendroclimatology; Middle latitudes; Reforestation; Spelt; Droughts in the United States; Radiocarbon dating; John A. Eddy; Ice age; Trade winds; Calcite; Weather forecasting; World Meteorological Organization; Soil; Calibration; Environmental determinism; Coronal hole; Teleconnection; Epidemic; Western Europe; Pollen zone; Dust Bowl; Landgrave; Snow; Carbon dioxide; CLIMAT; Temperature record; Monthly Weather Review; Atlantic World; Early modern period; Deforestation; Ecology; Carbon-14

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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;

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