A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

This monograph provides an overview of research into disasters from a historical
perspective, making two new contributions. First, it introduces the field of 'disaster studies' to …

" The Unending Frontier brings into focus the staggering environmental changes that came
with the creation of the early modern world economy. John Richards assembles material …

Phenology is the study of recurring biological events and its relationship to climate. Circular
statistics is an area of statistics not very much used by ecologists nor by other researchers …

For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia's ox-plow agricultural system was the most
efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of …

A few years ago, I began to think about writing a “small book on a large subject,” to quote
one of the great economists of the 20th century. 1 The end result is larger and a little different …

This paper reviews the methodological and practical issues relevant to the ways in which
natural scientists, historians and archaeologists may collaborate in the study of past climatic …

Libby Robin has carved a successful academic career for herself as an environmental
historian of Australia, whilst serving as a Research Fellow at the acclaimed Centre for …

This article compares chronologies reconstructed from historical records of prices, wages,
grain harvests, and population with corresponding chronologies of growing conditions and …