The Little Ice Age : how climate made history, 1300-1850
(2000)
By:
Fagan, Brian M
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
551.6/FAGAN,B
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Basic Books, [2000]
©2000
©2000
DESCRIPTION
xxi, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0465022715, 9780465022717, 9780465022724 (pbk.), 0465022723 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Warmth and its aftermath. The medieval warm period ; The great famine -- Cooling begins. The climatic seesaw ; Storms, cod and doggers ; A vast peasantry -- The end of the "full world". The specter of hunger ; The war against the glaciers ; "More like winter than summer" ; Dearth and revolution ; The year without a summer ; An Ghorta Mór -- The modern warm period. A warmer greenhouse
A new perspective on familiar events in history describes how a 500-year change in climate that lasted from A.D. 1300 until 1850 shaped modern European history
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