*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
