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Nature's Mutiny

How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

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A ground-breaking and internationally acclaimed work of environmental history tracing the great climate change of the seventeenth century: the 'Little Ice Age'.
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appear
For freezing meteors and congealed cold.'
Christopher Marlowe
In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate change of the seventeenth century, the consequences of which would transform the entire social and political fabric of Europe.
While hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, by the end of the sixteenth century the temperature had plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbours were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and 'frost fairs' were erected on a frozen Thames - with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city.
Recounting the enduring legacy and sweeping consequences of this 'Little Ice Age', acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had ineradicably changed by the mid-seventeenth century. While apocalyptic weather patterns destroyed entire harvests and incited mass migrations, Blom brilliantly shows how they also gave rise to the growth of European cities, the appearance of early capitalism, and the vigorous stirrings of the Enlightenment.
A far-reaching examination of how a society responds to profound and unexpected change, Nature's Mutiny both informs our view of the past and will transform the way we think about climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

    • Unit - 1: PROLOGUE: Winter Landscape
  • Chapter - 1: Life without Money
  • Chapter - 2: The Great Experiment
    • Unit - 2: "GOD HAS ABANDONED US": Europe, 1570-1600
  • Chapter - 3: A Monk on the Run
  • Chapter - 4: God's Wind and Waves
  • Chapter - 5: Harsh Frosts and Burning Sun
  • Chapter - 6: A Time of Confusion and a Fiery Mountain
  • Chapter - 7: Pilgrims and Their Hunger
  • Chapter - 8: Truth and Wine
  • Chapter - 9: Wine in Vienna
  • Chapter - 10: The Lights Go Out
  • Chapter - 11: Witches and Spoiled Harvests
  • Chapter - 12: The Truth in the Stars
  • Chapter - 13: Doctor Faustus
  • Chapter - 14: Infinite Worlds
  • Chapter - 15: The Tower of Books
    • Unit - 3: THE AGE OF IRON
  • Chapter - 16: Hortus Botanicus
  • Chapter - 17: Revolutionary Places
  • Chapter - 18: The City Devours Its Children
  • Chapter - 19: The Magic of Green Cheese
  • Chapter - 20: The Great Transformation
  • Chapter - 21: A Picture of the World
  • Chapter - 22: Idle Talk and Fabrications
  • Chapter - 23: A Warning and a Call to Repent
  • Chapter - 24: Tears Too Plentiful to Count
  • Chapter - 25: The Revolution of the Barrel of a Musket
  • Chapter - 26: Sell More to Strangers
  • Chapter - 27: The State as Machine
  • Chapter - 28: A Profitable Trade
  • Chapter - 29: The Curse of Silver
  • Chapter - 30: Officer, Retired
  • Chapter - 31: The Subversive Republic of Letters
  • Chapter - 32: Germanus incredibilis
  • Chapter - 33: Virtue in the Drowning Cell
  • Chapter - 34: Leviathan
  • Chapter - 35: An Inventory of Morality
    • Unit - 4: ON COMETS AND OTHER CELESTIAL LIGHTS
  • Chapter - 36: The Madness of Crowds
  • Chapter - 37: The Antichrist
  • Chapter - 38: The Messiah and the Whore
  • Chapter - 39: The Fair on the Ice
  • Chapter - 40: The Face of Change
  • Chapter - 41: The Price of Change
  • Chapter - 42: Tapissier du roi
  • Chapter - 43: The Public Sphere and the Vices of Bees
  • Chapter - 44: The Floating Reverend
    • Unit - 5: EPILOGUE: Supplement to The Fable of the Bees
  • Chapter - 45: Songbirds, Wood Lice, and Corals
  • Chapter - 46: Freedom and Luxury
  • Chapter - 47: Inherited Compromises
  • Chapter - 48: New Metaphors
  • Chapter - 49: The Theology of the Market
  • Chapter - 50: The Market and the Fortress
      • Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgments
      • Section - ii: Notes
      • Section - iii: Bibliography
      • Section - iiii: Illustration Credits
      • Index - v: Index

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
07. März 2019
Sprache
englisch
Untertitel
How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present. Sprache: Englisch.
Seitenanzahl
336
Autor/Autorin
Philipp Blom
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
gebunden
Gewicht
585 g
Größe (L/B/H)
245/165/35 mm
ISBN
9781509890415

Portrait

Philipp Blom

Philipp Blom was born in 1970 in Hamburg and grew up in Detmold, in Germany. After university studies in Vienna and Oxford, he obtained a D. Phil in Modern History. He started writing at Oxford and published a novel as well as occasional journalism, moving on to London, where he worked as an editor, translator, writer and freelance journalist, contributing to newspapers, magazines and radio programmes in Great Britain, the US, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, and France.

In 2001, Philipp Blom moved to Paris to concentrate on his books. In 2007 he settled in Vienna, where he continues to write nonfiction as well as fiction, films, and occasional journalism. He presents a cultural discussion programme on Austrian national radio and has lectured on history, philosophy, and cultural history in Europe, the US, and South America. He is married to Veronica Buckley, who is also a writer.

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