The Frigid Golden Age : Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720.

Degroot, Dagomar,

The Frigid Golden Age : Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720. - xxii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Studies in Environment and History . - Studies in environment and history. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-354) and index.

Introduction : crisis and opportunity in a changing climate -- The Little Ice Age -- Reaching Asia in a stormy, chilly climate -- Sailing, floating, riding, and skating through a cooler Europe -- Cooling, warming, and the wars of independence, 1564-1648 -- Gales, winds, and Anglo-Dutch antagonism, 1652-1688 -- Tracing and painting the Little Ice Age -- Texts, technologies, and climate change -- Conclusion : lessons from ice and gold.

Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.

ASLI Choice Award

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Eighty Years' War (Netherlands : 1568-1648)


1568-1714


Climatic changes--Netherlands.
Climatic changes.
Climatology.


Netherlands--Climate--History--17th century.
Netherlands--History--Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.
Netherlands--History--1648-1714.
Netherlands.


History.

QC903.2.N4 / D44 2018

304.2/5094920903

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