Sam White

Christian Pfister

Franz Mauelshagen

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 of international specialists from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the methods, sources, and major findings of historical climate reconstruction and impact research. Its chapters take the reader through each key source of past climate and weather information and each technique of analysis; through each historical period and region of the world; through the major topics of climate and history and core case studies; and finally through the history of climate ideas and science. Using clear, non-technical language, The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History serves as a textbook for students, a reference guide for specialists and an introduction to climate history for scholars and interested readers.

The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History

Martin Stuber

Regina Dauser

Stefan Hächler

Michael Kempe

Europäische Korrespondenznetze, die Kommunikation über weite Räume und Grenzen hinweg ermöglichten, sind das Thema der Beiträge des Bandes. Nicht nur Meinungs- und Nachrichtenaustausch vollzog sich über das Medium des Briefes, auch Realien – Antiquitäten, Handelswaren, Bücher und Naturalien – wurden in diesen Transfer einbezogen und hatten in Korrespondenznetzen der Frühen Neuzeit eine hohe Bedeutung. Gerade dieser Realientransfer spielte für das in diesem Band gewählte Korrespondenzbeispiel "Botanik und Pflanzentransfer" mit der Versendung von Pflanzen und Pflanzensamen eine zentrale Rolle. Briefliche Kommunikation als Medium sozialer Verflechtung lässt sich in ihrer Bedeutung für Genese, Transfer und Ordnung von Wissen am Beispiel botanischer Ordnungssysteme ebenso nachvollziehen wie an der brieflichen Verbreitung und Nutzbarmachung des Wissens über neu entdeckte Pflanzen in Medizin und Landwirtschaft. Durch die Diskussion und Anwendung moderner netzwerkanalytischer Verfahren präsentiert der Band in interdisziplinärer Kooperation zugleich neue Wege einer systematisch-vergleichenden Erforschung der Struktur und Dynamik von Korrespondenznetzen.

Botanik und Pflanzentransfer in europäischen Korrespondenznetzen des 18. Jahrhunderts

Wissen im Netz

Andrea JANKU

Gerrit Schenk

Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster experiences in the past. How did disaster experiences impact on the development of modern sciences in the early modern era? Why did religion continue to play such an important role in the encounter with disasters, despite the strong trend towards secularization in the modern world? What was the political role of disasters? Historical Disasters in Context illustrates how past societies coped with a threatening environment, how societies changed in response to disaster experiences, and how disaster experiences were processed and communicated, both locally and globally. Particular emphasis is put on the realms of science, religion, and politics. International case studies demonstrate that while there are huge differences across cultures in the way people and societies responded to disasters, there are also many commonalities and interactions between different cultures that have the potential to alter the ways people prepare for and react to disasters in future. To explain these relationships and highlight their significance is the purpose of this volume.

Science, Religion, and Politics

Historical Disasters in Context

Franz Mauelshagen

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