Climates and Cultures in History

Open Access Journal

This journal is moving to a new home at Bielefeld University Press. For enquiries around submissions or any other matter, please contact the new publisher via their website.

Climates and Cultures in History addresses the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of climatic variability in human history around the world.

Publishing its first issue in 2024, Climates and Cultures in History welcomes original research and reviews on all periods of human history. The journal aims to bring into conversation what disciplinary separation has fragmented — the expertise of all the historical sciences: archaeology and ancient, medieval, early-modern and modern history. We hope, by this integrative approach, to create a thesaurus of knowledge about cultural interactions with the climate system, from the paleolithic era to the present. This new Open Access seeks to bring broader attention to historical climate research in general and to emphasise its relevance in the ongoing discourse about anthropogenic climate change today. It will be a forum for collaboration to flourish between archaeologists; human, historical and physical geographers; historians; and climatologists. In this collaborative spirit, we place particular emphasis on including the perspective of researchers from countries of the Global South, which still tends to be underrepresented in (historical) climate research. The journal’s scope is global, which means it welcomes studies on any part of the world, not only at the global scale, but also at regional and local levels.

ISSN: 2635-1331 (Online, OPEN ACCESS)

The journal’s thematic scope will include, but not be limited to

Cultural and political history of interactions between human societies and climate (agricultural history, paleo-ethnobotany, disasters and extreme events, climate change and infrastructures, climate and the body / ‘race’ / gender, etc.)
The impacts of climatic changes and variability on demography, societies, cultures and civilisations
The collapse, adaptation and resilience of civilisations
The history of ideas about human influence on climate, and about ‘climate’ and climate-related natural phenomena

The journal is temporarily closed to new submissions.

Please refer to Bielefeld University Press for more information about how to submit new research.

EDITORS

Eleonora Rohland (Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University)

Franz Mauelshagen (Bielefeld University)

Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study)

EDITORIAL TEAM

ISSN: 2635-1331 (Online, OPEN ACCESS)