The Little Ice Age (Revised): How Climate Made History 1300-1850
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The Little Ice Age (Revised): How Climate Made History 1300-1850

The Little Ice Age (Revised): How Climate Made History 1300-1850

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Brian Fagan (Author)  

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The Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the dates of long-ago wine harvests and the business records of medieval monasteries to modern chemical analysis of ice cores, renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan reveals how a 500-year cold snap began in the fourteenth century. As Fagan shows, the increasingly cold and stormy weather dramatically altered fishing and farming practices, and it shaped familiar events, from Norse exploration to the settlement of North America, from the French Revolution to the Irish potato famine to the Industrial Revolution. Now updated with a new preface discussing the latest historical climate research, The Little Ice Age offers deeply important context for understanding today's age of global warming. As the Little Ice Age shows, climate change does not come in gentle, easy stages, and its influence on human life is profound.
Brian Fagan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written many internationally acclaimed popular books about archaeology, including The Little Ice Age, The Great Warming, and The Long Summer. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
  • Contributor: Brian Fagan
  • Imprint: Basic Books
  • ISBN13: 9781541618596
  • Number of Pages: 288
  • Packaged Dimensions: 138x208x22mm
  • Packaged Weight: 240
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Release Date: 2019-12-12
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Brian Fagan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he has written many internationally acclaimed popular books about archaeology, including The Little Ice Age, The Great Warming, and The Long Summer. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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