Nature's Mutiny : How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present.
Language: English Original language: German Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019Copyright date: 2019Description: xi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781631494048
- 163149404X
- How the little Ice Age of the long seventeenth century transformed the West and shaped the present
- Welt aus den Angeln. English
- 1600-1699
- Climatic changes -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Europe
- Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Europe
- Glacial climates
- SCIENCE -- Physics
- Civilization
- Climatic changes
- Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
- Climatic changes -- Social aspects
- Glacial climates
- Intellectual life
- Europe -- Civilization -- 17th century
- Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
- 304.2/509409032 23
- QC903.2.E85 B5613 2019
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Originally published in German: Die Welt aus den Angeln (Munchen : Carl Hanser Verlag, 2017).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-314) and index.
“A sweeping story, embracing developments in economics and science, philosophy and exploration, religion and politics. . . . Beautifully clear.”— John Lanchester, The New Yorker
Hailed as an “arresting” (Lawrence Klepp, New Criterion) account, Nature’s Mutiny chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth century that totally transformed Europe’s social and political fabric. Best-selling historian Philipp Blom reveals how a new, radically altered Europe emerged out of the “Little Ice Age” that diminished crop yields across the continent, forcing thousands to flee starvation in the countryside to burgeoning urban centers, and even froze London’s Thames, upon which British citizens erected semipermanent frost fairs with bustling kiosks, taverns, and brothels. Highlighting how politics and culture also changed drastically, Blom evokes the era’s most influential artists and thinkers who imagined groundbreaking worldviews to cope with environmental cataclysm.
As we face a climate crisis of our own, “Blom’s prodigious synthesis delivers a sharply-focused lesson for the twenty-first century: the profound effects of just a few degrees of climate change can alter the course of civilization, forever” (Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History).
Text in English.