About the book: 1989 / The book contains extensive factual material on the history of climate, weather and crop failures in Western and Eastern Europe for 2600 years (since the 1st millennium BC to XVI century AD). From the standpoint of interscience (a block of knowledge) about bread, information about droughts, rainy periods, unusually cold and mild winters, high floods, crop failures, famine years, epidemics, etc. is presented in chronological order. A number of issues of the influence of agrometeorological factors on agricultural productivity are covered .The book is intended for climatologists, meteorologists, plant growers and historians.