History and Climate

'... 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)

• Unlocking the Doors to the Past: Recent Developments in Climate and Climate-impact Research.- Pre-instrumental Weather Observations in Poland in the 16th and 17th Centuries.- The Late Maunder Minimum (1675–1715) — climax of the “Little Ice Age” in Europe.- Early European Instrumental Records.- Circulation Changes in Europe since the 1780s.- A millennium of Weather, Winds and Water in the Low Countries.- Long Climatic Series from Austria.- The Onset of the Little Ice Age.- Sea Ice-Climate-Glacier Relationships in Northern Iceland Since the Nineteenth Century: Possible Analogues for the Holocene.- The Impact of Short-term Climate Change on British and French Agriculture and Population in the First Half of the 18th Century.- Bons Baisers d’Islande: Climatic, Environmental, and Human Dimensions Impacts of the Lakagígar Eruption (1783–1784) in Iceland.- The Effect of Climatic Variation on Pelagic Fish and Fisheries.- Climate and Human Health Linkages on Multiple Timescales.