This book recovers complex histories that continue to shape both how we understand climate and what we understand by it. It also examines how climate change compels us to rethink many of our existing traditional means of historical understanding. This book examines It addresses these questions climate change from transdisciplinary perspectives across the environmental humanities, including oral history, museum studies, history of religion, literary history, philosophy and critical legal studies..

Introduction: Climates of History, Cultures of Climate Tom Bristow and Thomas H. Ford

Part 1 Climates of History

1. Voices of Endurance: Climate and the Power of Oral History Deb Anderson

2. Rethinking Seasons: Changing Climate, Changing Time Christian O'Brien

3. The Terrestrial Envelope: Joseph Fourier's Geological Speculation Jerome Whitington

4. Melancholy and the Continent of Fire Tom Bristow and Andrea Witcomb

5. The Anthropocene and the Long Seventeenth Century: 1550-1750 Linda Williams

Part 2 Climates of Writing

6. Change Beyond Belief: Fictions of (the) Enlightenment and Simpson's 'Climate Change Suite' Jayne Lewis

7. Fuels and Humans, Bíos and Zoe Karen Pinkus

8. The 'Foreign Grave' Motif in Victorian Medicine and Literature: Climate Therapy and The Limits of Human Environmental Control Roslyn Jolly

9. Climate Change and Literary History Thomas H. Ford

Part 3 Climates of Politics

10. Climate Change: Politics, Excess, Sovereignty Nick Mansfield

11. Para-Religions of Climate Change: Humanity, Eco-Nihilism, Apocalypse S. Romi Mukherjee

12. Litigation, Activism, and the Paradox of Lawfulness in an Age of Climate Change Nicole Rogers

13. This Is Not My Beautiful Biosphere Timothy Morton

Tom Bristow is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Thomas H. Ford is a Lecturer in English at Monash University, Australia.