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Nature's Mutiny - How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present (Hardcover)
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Nature's Mutiny - How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present (Hardcover)
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Blom's hypothesis is forceful, and has the potential to be both
frightening and, if you hold it up to the light at just the right
angle, a little optimistic. The idea can be put like this: climate
change changes everything' John Lanchester, New Yorker In this
innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp
Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis
that would transform the entire social and political fabric of
Europe. While hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, by
the end of the sixteenth century the temperature plummeted so
drastically that Mediterranean harbours were covered with ice,
birds literally dropped out of the sky, and 'frost fairs' were
erected on a frozen Thames - with kiosks, taverns, and even
brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city. Recounting
the deep legacy and sweeping consequences of this 'Little Ice Age',
acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape
had ineradicably changed by the mid-seventeenth century. While
apocalyptic weather patterns destroyed entire harvests and incited
mass migrations, Blom brilliantly shows how they also gave rise to
the growth of European cities, the appearance of early capitalism,
and the vigorous stirrings of the Enlightenment. A sweeping
examination of how a society responds to profound and unexpected
change, Nature's Mutiny will transform the way we think about
climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond.
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