This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies. Bringing together dozens o

Explores the latest historical research on the development of the earth's climate, showing how even minor changes in the climate could result in major social, p

Introduction : intimations of the planetary -- The globe and the planet. Four theses; Conjoined histories; The planet : a humanist category -- The difficulty of

The first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity.