1. General Introduction: Weather, Climate, and Human History
Part I Reconstruction
2. The Global Climate System
3. Archives of Nature and Archives of Societies
4. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: DocumentaryEvidenceOverview
5.Evidence from the Archives of Societies: PersonalDocumentary Sources
6. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Institutional Sources
7. Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Early InstrumentalObservations
8.Evidence from the Archives of Societies: Historical Sourcesin Glaciology
9.Analysis and Interpretation: Homogenization of InstrumentalData
10. Analysis and Interpretation: Calibration-Verification
11.Analysis and Interpretation: Temperature and PrecipitationIndices
12.Analysis and Interpretation: Spatial Climate FieldReconstructions
13. Analysis and Interpretation: Modeling of Past Climates
14. The Denial of Global Warming
Part II Historical Climatology: Periods and Regions
15. The Holocene
16. Mediterranean Antiquity
17. China: 2000 Years of Climate Reconstruction from HistoricalDocuments
18. Climate History of Asia (Excluding China)
19. Climate History in Latin America
20. A Multi-Century History of Drought and Wetter Conditionsin Africa
21. Recent Developments in Australian Climate History
22. European Middle Ages
23. Early Modern Europe
24. North American Climate History (15001800)
25. Climate from 1800 to 1970 in North America and Europe
26. Global Warming (1970Present)
Part III Climate and Society
27. Climate, Weather, Agriculture, and Food
28. Climate, Ecology, and Infectious Human Disease
29.Climate Change and Conflict
30.Narrating Indigenous Histories of Climate Changein the Americas and Pacific
31. Migration and Climate in World History
Part IV Case Studies in Climate Reconstruction and Impacts
32. The Climate Downturn of 53650
33. The 1310s Event
34.The 1780s: Global Climate Anomalies, Floods, Droughts,and Famines
35. A Year Without a Summer, 1816
Part V The History of Climate Ideas and Climate Science
36.Climate as a Scientific ParadigmEarly Historyof Climatology to 1800
37. Climate and Empire in the Nineteenth Century.- 38.From Climatology to Climate Science in the TwentiethCentury.