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

This article evaluates 165 studies from various disciplines, published between 2000 and
2019, which in different ways link past climate variability and change to human history in …

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 …

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

Historical climatology is an interdisciplinary field of research encompassing the
reconstruction of past climate and weather from written sources and artifacts, as well the …

Research on the effect of climate change on violent armed conflict relies almost exclusively
on analysing annual variation in climatic conditions. A shortcoming of this approach is that it …

How is history relevant to the present, or indeed the future? Governments around the world
have used history to inform planning and decision‐making in various fields for years, but …

Despite the vast evidence on the short-run effects of adverse climate shocks on the
economy, our understanding of their long-run impact on institutions is limited. To tackle such …

The mid-17th century is characterized by a cluster of explosive volcanic eruptions in the
1630s and 1640s, climatic conditions culminating in the Maunder Minimum, and political …

This article assesses the development and current state of climate history research
conducted in the five Nordic countries and Estonia. The possible societal impacts of past …