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

The article evaluates recent scholarship on famines in Europe during the medieval and early
modern periods (c. 700–1800), synthesizing the state‐of‐the‐art knowledge and identifying …

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 …

This study examines the historical evolution of socioeconomic disparities in adult mortality,
with a focus on European societies. Despite the widespread improvements in population …

Recent advances in paleoclimatology and the growing digital availability of large historical
datasets on human activity have created new opportunities to investigate long‐term …

Past volcanic eruptions and their climatic impacts have been linked increasingly with co-
occurring societal crises–like crop failures and famines–in recent research. Yet, as many of …

" The world is growing more hazardous. Natural disasters are increasing in frequency and
severity, spurred in part by changes associated with a warming planet. In their 2020 joint …

Recent work has linked historical crises, both regional and local, with palaeoclimatic
estimates of global and hemispheric climate change. Such studies tend to underemphasize …

Food crises have always tested societies. This volume discusses societal resilience to food
crises, examining the responses and strategies at the societal level that effectively helped …