Past Climates And Their Impact On Man : A Review / M.j. Ingram, G. Farmer And T.m.l. Wigley -- The Use Of Stable-isotope Data In Climate Reconstruction / J. Gray -- Glaciological Evidence Of Holocene Climatic Change / S.c. Porter -- The Use Of Pollen Analysis In The Reconstruction Of Past Climates : A Review / H.j.b. Birks -- Reconstructing Seasonal To Century Time Scale Variations In Climate From Tree-ring Evidence / H.c. Fritts, G.r. Lofgren And G.a. Gordon -- Archaeological Evidence For Climatic Change During The Last 5000 Years / R. Mcghee -- The Use Of Documentary Sources For The Study Of Past Climates / M.j. Ingram, D.j. Underhill And G. Farmer -- An Analysis Of The Little Ice Age Climate In Switzerland And Its Consequences For Agricultural Production / C. Pfister -- The Historical Climatology Of Africa / S.e. Nicholson -- Drought And Floods In China, 1470-1979 / Wang Shao-wu And Zhao Zong-ci -- An Approach To The Study Of The Development Of Climate And Its Impact In Human Affairs / H.h. Lamb -- Short-term Climatic Fluctuations And Their Economic Role / H. Flohn -- Climatic Change And The Agricultural Frontier : A Research Strategy / M.l. Parry -- History And Climate : Some Economic Models / J.l. Anderson -- Climate And Popular Unrest In Late Medieval Castile / A. Mackay -- Climate, Environment, And History : The Case Of Roman North Africa / B.d. Shaw -- The Economics Of Extinction In Norse Greenland / T.h. Mcgovern -- Weather And The Peasantry Of Upper Brittany, 1780-1789 / D.m.g. Sutherland -- Climatic Stress And Maine Agriculture, 1785-1885 / D.c. Smith [and Others] -- Droughts In India Over The Last 200 Years, Their Socio-economic Impacts And Remedial Measures For Them / D.a. Mooley And G.b. Pant -- The Effect Of Climate Fluctuations On Human Populations : Two Hypotheses / M.j. Bowden [and Others]. Edited By T.m.l. Wigley, M.j. Ingram, And G. Farmer. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes.

T. M. L. Wigley; M. J. Ingram; G. Farmer

Wigley, T. M. L; Ingram, M. J; Farmer, G

T. M. L Wigley; H. J Ingram; G Farmer

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

1st paperback ed, Cambridge, 1985

First Edition, 1982

January 29, 1982

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

This highly successful book is a collection of twenty papers, specially written by research workers in the many relevant disciplines. First published in 1985, it was the first major survey of both the methodology of climatic reconstruction and the problem of climate/history interactions.

xii, 530 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographies and indexes

2024-07-01