Climate and History : : Studies in Interdisciplinary History /

Climate and History : : Studies in Interdisciplinary History / / ed. by Theodore K. Rabb, Robert I. Rotberg.

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.The...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Appleby, Andrew Β.,
Baker, Donald G.,
Baulant, Micheline,
Bell, Barbara,
Bryson, Reid A.,
Eddy, John A.,
Fischer, David Hackett,
Fritts, Harold C.,
Gordon, Geoffrey A.,
Herlihy, David,
Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy,
Landsberg, Helmut Ε.,
Lofgren, G. Robert,
Namias, Jerome,
Padoch, Christine,
Pfister, Christian,
Post, John D.,
Rabb, Theodore Κ.,
Vries, Jan de,
Webb III, Thompson,
Wilson, Alexander Τ.,
HerausgeberIn:
Rabb, Theodore K.,
Rotberg, Robert I.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1981
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Studies in Interdisciplinary History ; 341
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • On the Climates of History
  • Measuring the Impact of Climate on History: The Search for Appropriate Methodologies
  • Past Climates from Unexploited Written Sources
  • Epidemics and Famine in the Little Ice Age
  • The Little Ice Age: Thermal and Wetness Indices for Central Europe
  • Severe Drought and Recent History
  • Climate and Documentary Sources: A Comment
  • The Impact of Climate on Political, Social, and Economic Change: A Comment
  • Climate and the Role of the Sun
  • The Reconstruction of Climatic Sequences from Botanical Data
  • Past Climate Reconstructed from Tree Rings
  • Isotope Evidence for Past Climatic and Environmental Change
  • Botanical and Chemical Evidence of Climatic Change: A Comment
  • Climate and History: Priorities for Research
  • The Historian and the Climatologist
  • Grape Harvests from the Fifteenth through the Nineteenth Centuries
  • Analysis of Viticultural Data by Cumulative Deviations
  • The Contributors

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