Nature&Apos S Mutiny: How The Little Ice Age Transformed West And Shaped Present Philipp Blom Picador Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Blom’s Hypothesis Is Forceful And Has The Potential To Be Both Frightening If You Hold It Up Light At Just Right Angle A Little Optimistic Idea Can Put Like This: Climate Change Changes Everything\ John Lanchester New Yorker In This Innovative Compelling Work Of Environmental History Philipp Blom Chronicles Great Crisis 1600S That Would Transform Entire Social Political Fabric Europe While Hints Appeared As Early 1570S By End Sixteenth Century Temperature Plummeted So Drastically Mediterranean Harbours Were Covered With Ice Birds Literally Dropped Out Sky ‘Frost Fairs’ Erected On Frozen Thames – Kiosks Taverns Even Brothels Become Semi-Permanent Part City Recounting Deep Legacy Sweeping Consequences ‘Little Age’ Acclaimed Historian Reveals How European Landscape Had Ineradicably Changed Mid-Seventeenth Apocalyptic Weather Patterns Destroyed Harvests Incited Mass Migrations Brilliantly Shows They Also Gave Rise Growth Cities Appearance Capitalism Vigorous Stirrings Enlightenment Examination Society Responds Profound Unexpected Nature’s Mutiny Will Way We Think About Twenty-First Beyond Σελίδες: 336 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0312 Διαστάσεις: 16 2X16 2Cm