History and Climate

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Unlocking the Doors to the Past: Recent Developments in Climate and Climate Impact Research

      • P. D. Jones, A. E. J. Ogilvie, T. D. Davies, K. R. Briffa

      Pages 1-8

3. Pre-Instrumental Observations

   1. Pre-Instrumental Weather Observations in Poland in the 16th and 17th Centuries

      • Anita Bokwa, Danuta Limanówka, Joanna Wibig

      Pages 9-27

   2. The Late Maunder Minimum (1675–1715) — Climax of the ‘Little Ice Age’ in Europe

      • Jürg Luterbacher

      Pages 29-54

4. Instrumental Records

   1. Early European Instrumental Records

      • Philip D. Jones

      Pages 55-77

   2. Circulation Changes in Europe since the 1780s

      • Jucundus Jacobeit, Phil Jones, Trevor Davies, Christoph Beck

      Pages 79-99

5. Climate Syntheses

   1. A Millennium of Weather, Winds and Water in the Low Countries

      • A. F. V. van Engelen, J. Buisman, F. Ijnsen

      Pages 101-124

   2. Long Climatic series from Austria

      • Ingeborg Auer, Reinhard Böhm, Wolfgang Schöner

      Pages 125-151

   3. The Onset of the Little Ice Age

      • Jean M. Grove

      Pages 153-185

   4. Sea Ice-Climate-Glacier Relationships in Northern Iceland since the Nineteenth Century: Possible Analogues for the Holocene

      • Maria Wastl, Johann Stötter, Chris J. Caseldine

      Pages 187-200

6. Climate Impacts

   1. The Impact of Short-Term Climate Change on British and French Agriculture and Population in the First Half of the 18th Century

      • Axel Michaelowa

      Pages 201-217

   2. Bons Baisers d’Islande: Climatic, Environmental, and Human Dimensions Impacts of the Lakagígar Eruption (1783–1784) in Iceland

      • G. R. Demarée, A. E. J. Ogilvie

      Pages 219-246

   3. The Effect of Climatic Variation on Pelagic Fish and Fisheries

      • Jürgen Alheit, Eberhard Hagen

      Pages 247-265

   4. Climate and Human Health Linkages on Multiple Timescales

      • Henry F. Diaz, R. Sari Kovats, Anthony J. McMichael, Neville Nicholls

      Pages 267-289

7. Back Matter

   Pages 291-295

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Most studies of the impacts of climate change consider impacts in the future from anthropogenic climate change. Very few consider what the impacts of past climate change have been. History and Climate: Memories of the Future? contains 13 interdisciplinary chapters which consider impacts of change in different regions of the world, over the last millennium. Initial chapters assess evidence for the changes, while later chapters consider the impacts on agriculture, fisheries, health, and society. The book will be of interest to anyone working in the field of climate change and history.

• Scale
• Weather
• climate
• climate change
• environment
• water

`... the book contains much interesting, useful material that students and researchers from a variety of disciplines will benefit from reading. ...this book does have something for everyone. ... it should retain a place in every library where there is an interest in either climate or history, or maybe even both.'
Pete Langdon, University of Exeter in Progress in Physical Geography, 26:3 (2002)

• Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

  P. D. Jones, K. R. Briffa

• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

  A. E. J. Ogilvie

• School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

  T. D. Davies

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