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List of contributors | |
Preface | |
Introduction | |
Past climates and their impact on man: a review | |
Reconstruction of Past Climates | |
The use of stable isotope data in climate reconstruction | |
Glaciological evidence of Holocene climatic change | |
The use of pollen analysis in the reconstruction of past climates: a review | |
Reconstructing seasonal to century time scale variations in climate from tree-ring evidence | |
Archaeological evidence for climatic change during the last 5000 years | |
The use of documentary sources for the study of past climates | |
An analysis of the little Ice Age climate in Switzerland and its consequences for agricultural production | |
The historical climatology of Africa | |
Drought and floods in China, 1470-1979 | |
Towards a Theory of Climate History Interactions | |
An approach to the study of the development of climate and its impact in human affairs | |
Short-term climactic fluctuations and their economic role | |
Climatic change and the agricultural frontier: a research strategy | |
History and climate: some economic models | |
Climate and popular unrest in late medieval | |
Climate-History Interactions: Some Case Studies | |
Climate, environment and history: the case of Roman North Africa | |
The economics of extinction in Norse Greenland | |
Weather and the peasantry of Upper Brittany, 1780-1789 | |
Climatic stress and Maine agriculture, 1785-1885 | |
Droughts in India over the last 200 years, and their socio-economic impacts and remedial measures for them | |
The effect of climate fluctuations on human populations: two hypotheses | |
Author index | |
Subject index | |
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