2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American historian at the University of Oklahoma — author of The Fate of Rome (on climate change and disease in the fall of the Western Roman Empire) — who pioneered the integration of paleoclimatology and ancient DNA evidence into Roman history.
J.R. McNeill's 2010 environmental history of the Caribbean — arguing that yellow fever and malaria (carried by mosquitoes) more than any military force determined which European powers succeeded in the Caribbean and shaped the outcomes of the American Revolution and Haitian Revolution.