The Palgrave handbook of climate history

1: General Introduction: Weather, Climate, and Human History / Christian Pfister, Sam White, and Franz Mauelshagen

Part I. Reconstruction. 2: The Global Climate System / Eduardo Zorita, Sebastian Wagner, and Fredrik Schenk

3: Archives of Nature and Archives of Societies / Stefan Brönnimann, Christian Pfister, and Sam White

4: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Documentary Evidence-Overview / Christian Pfister

5: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Personal Documentary Sources / Christian Pfister and Sam White

6: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Institutional Sources / Christian Pfister

7: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Early Instrumental Observations / Dario Camuffo

8: Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Historical sources in glaciology / Samuel U. Nussbaumer and Heinz J. Zumbühl

9: Analysis and interpretation: Homogenization of instrumental data / Ingeborg Auder

10: Analysis and interpretation: Calibration-verification / Petr Dobrovolný

11: Analysis and Interpretation: Temperature and Precipitation Indices / Christian Pfister, Chantal Camenisch, and Petr Dobrovolný

12: Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate Field Reconstructions / Jürg Luterbacher and Eduardo Zorita

13: Analysis and interpretation: Modeling of past climates / Eduardo Zorita and Sebastian Wagner

14: The denial of global warming / Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway, David J. Karoly, Joelle Gergis, Urs Neu, and Christian Pfister

Part II. Historical climatology: Periods and regions. 15: The holocene / John L. Brooke

16: Mediterranean antiquity / Peregrine Horden

17: China: 2000 years of climate reconstruction from historical documents / Quansheng Ge, Zhixin Hao, Jingyun Zheng, and Yang Liu

18: Climate history of Asia (excluding China) / George C. D. Adamson and David J. Nash

19: Climate history in Latin America / María del Rosario Prieto and Facunto Rojas

20: A multi-century history of drought and wetter conditions in Africa / Sharon E. Nicholson

21: Recent developments in Australian climate history / Joëlle Gergis, Linden Ashcroft, and Don Garden

22. European Middle Ages / Christian Rohr, Chantal Camenisch, and Kathleen Pribyl

23: Early modern Europe / Christian Pfister, Rudolf Brázdil, Jürg Luterbacher, Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, and Sam White

24: North American climate history (1500-1800) / Sam White

Climate from 1800 to 1970 in North America and Europe / Stefan Brönnimann, Sam White, and Victoria Slonosky

26: Global warming (1970-present) / Stefan Brönnimann

Part III. Climate and society. 27: Climate, weather, agriculture, and food / Sam White, John Brooke, and Christian Pfister

28: Climate, ecology, and infectious human disease / James L. A. Webb

29: Climate change and conflict / Dagomar Degroot

30: Narrating indigenous histories of climate change in the Americas and Pacific / Thomas Wickman

31: Migration and climate in world history / Franz Mauelshagen

Part IV. Case studies in climate reconstruction and impacts. 32: The climate downturn of 536-50 / Timothy P. Newfield

33: The 1310s event / Philip Slavin

34: The 1780s: Global climate anomalies, floods, droughts, and famines / Vinita Damodaran, Rob Allan, Astrid E. J. Ogilvie, Gaston R. Demarée, Joëlle Gergis, Takehiko Mikami, Alan Mikhail, Sharon E. Nicholson, Stefan Norrgård, and James Hamilton

35: A year without summer, 1816 / Christian Pfister and Sam White

Part V. The history of climate ideas and climate science. 36: Climate as a scientific paradigm-Early history of climatology to 1800 / Franz Mauelshagen

37: Climate and empire in the nineteeth century / Rugh A. Morgan

38: From climatology to climate science in the twentieth century / Matthias Heymann and Dania Achermann.