Overview
- Responds to current global warming concerns and explores the history of climate changes
- Explores both weather and climate history in its relationship with human history
- Brings together scholars from the humanities and the sciences to explore climate history
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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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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Reconstruction
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Historical Climatology: Periods and Regions
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Reviews
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2019
“They provide the most comprehensive treatment to date of historical climate and society interactions and should serve as an excellent source for a range of readers interested in this emerging topic. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.” (J. Schoof, Choice, Vol. 56 (7), March, 2019)
“They provide the most comprehensive treatment to date of historical climate and society interactions and should serve as an excellent source for a range of readers interested in this emerging topic. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.” (J. Schoof, Choice, Vol. 56 (7), March, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sam White is Associate Professor of Environmental History at the Ohio State University, USA and author of the award-winning book The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (2011), among other publications. He is also co-founder and director of the Climate History Network.
Christian Pfister is Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has published 11 books and more than 200 articles. He is co-founder of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH).
Franz Mauelshagen is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. He has published several books, including the award-winning Wunderkammer auf Papier (A Cabinet of Curiosities on Paper, 2011), and more than 50 articles on the history of science, disasters, climate, and the Anthropocene.
Christian Pfister is Professor Emeritus and Senior Researcher at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has published 11 books and more than 200 articles. He is co-founder of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH).
Franz Mauelshagen is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. He has published several books, including the award-winning Wunderkammer auf Papier (A Cabinet of Curiosities on Paper, 2011), and more than 50 articles on the history of science, disasters, climate, and the Anthropocene.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History
Editors: Sam White, Christian Pfister, Franz Mauelshagen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43020-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43019-9Published: 20 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95897-9Published: 22 October 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43020-5Published: 10 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 656
Number of Illustrations: 80 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, World History, Global and Transnational History, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climatology, Climate Change