Ebook: Nature's mutiny: how the Little ice age transformed the West and shaped the present
Author: Blom Philipp
- Tags: Civilization, Climatic changes, Climatic changes--Economic aspects, Climatic changes--Economic aspects--Europe, Climatic changes--Europe--History--17th century, Climatic changes--Social aspects, Climatic changes--Social aspects--Europe, Glacial climates, Intellectual life, History, Climatic changes -- Europe -- History -- 17th century, Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Europe, Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Europe, Europe -- Civilization -- 17th century, Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th centur
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK
- City: Europe
- Language: English
- epub
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appear
For freezing meteors and congealed cold.'
Christopher Marlowe
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...