Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Its Social Dimension

by Rudiger Glaser and Christian Pfister

Book Overview

A multidecadal cooling is known to have occurred in Europe in the final decades of the sixteenth-century. It is still open to debate as to what might have caused the underlying shifts in atmospheric circulation and how these changes affected societies. This book is the fruit of interdisciplinary cooperation among 37 scientists including climatologists, hydrologists, glaciologists, dendroclimatologists, and economic and cultural historians. The known...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792359348
• ISBN13: 9780792359340
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"