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  5. Early Modern Climate Change: “The Little Ice Age” hits Central Europe
  • Exploring Central European History: WI Director's Podcast
  • Lt. Commander Sir Georg von Trapp and Maria Kutschera: The Story behind the “Sound of Music”
  • Austro-Hungarians in Canada’s Internment Camps, 1914-1920. Part of a World-wide Story
  • The Vienna World’s Fair of 1873: Big Plans, not so big Results
  • Marie Antoinette was not Alone: Medieval and Early Modern Habsburg Marriage Diplomacy. The Women who left Home
  • Early Modern Climate Change: “The Little Ice Age” hits Central Europe
  • A Late Medieval Pandemic: The “Black Death” and the Rise of the Habsburg Dynasty

Early Modern Climate Change: “The Little Ice Age” hits Central Europe

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Related links:

The little ice age [electronic resource] - University of Alberta Library

The Little Ice Age : how climate made history 1300-1850 - University of Alberta Library

Times of feast, times of famine: a history of climate since the year 1000 - University of Alberta Library

Euro-Climhist – Ways to Weather Hindcasting

Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN) - University of Innsbruck

HISKLID database (available in German only)

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Spörer Minimum

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Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies
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