1. General Introduction: Weather, Climate, and Human History
Part I Reconstruction
2. The Global Climate System
3. Archives of Nature and Archives of Societies
4. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Documentary Evidence-Overview
5. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Personal Documentary Sources
6. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Institutional Sources
7. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Early Instrumental Observations
8. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Historical Sources in Glaciology
9. Analysis and Interpretation: Homogenization of Instrumental Data
10. Analysis and Interpretation: Calibration-Verification
11. Analysis and Interpretation: Temperature and Precipitation Indices
12. Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate Field Reconstructions
13. Analysis and Interpretation: Modeling of Past Climates
14. The Denial of Global Warming
Part II Historical Climatology: Periods and Regions
15. The Holocene
16. Mediterranean Antiquity
17. China: 2000 Years of Climate Reconstruction from Historical Documents
18. Climate History of Asia (Excluding China)
19. Climate History in Latin America
20. A Multi-Century History of Drought and Wetter Conditions in Africa
21. Recent Developments in Australian Climate History
22. European Middle Ages
23. Early Modern Europe
24. North American Climate History (1500-1800)
25. Climate from 1800 to 1970 in North America and Europe
26. Global Warming (1970-Present)
Part III Climate and Society
27. Climate, Weather, Agriculture, and Food
28. Climate, Ecology, and Infectious Human Disease
29. Climate Change and Conflict
30. Narrating Indigenous Histories of Climate Change in the Americas and Pacific
31. Migration and Climate in World History
Part IV Case Studies in Climate Reconstruction and Impacts
32. The Climate Downturn of 536-50
33. The 1310s Event
34. The 1780s: Global Climate Anomalies, Floods, Droughts, and Famines
35. A Year Without a Summer, 1816
Part V The History of Climate Ideas and Climate Science
36. Climate as a Scientific Paradigm-Early History of Climatology to 1800
37. Climate and Empire in the Nineteenth Century.- 38. From Climatology to Climate Science in the Twentieth Century.
About the Author: 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.
