Climate and History
Studies in Interdisciplinary History
Will be published approx. on 14. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-0-691-61483-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
447 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-61483-0 (9780691614830)
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E-Book
07/2014
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
€51.99
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Persons
Edited by Robert I. Rotberg & Theodore K. Rabb
Content
*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