Rotberg / Rabb Climate and History

Studies in Interdisciplinary History
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5410-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 341, 292 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Interdisciplinary History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Rotberg, Robert I.

Rabb, Theodore K.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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