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

Europe Where The Sun Dares Scarce Appear For Freezing Meteors And Congealed Cold \ - Christopher Marlowe In This Innovative Compelling Work Of Environmental History Philipp Blom Chronicles Great Climate Crisis 1600S A That Would Transform Entire Social Political Fabric 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 To Growth Cities Appearance Capitalism Vigorous Stirrings Enlightenment Examination Society Responds Profound Unexpected Change Nature’s Mutiny Will Way We Think About Twenty-First Beyond Σελίδες: 416 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0128 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm