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Philipp Blom

Nature's Mutiny

How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

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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 drast… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63149-672-1
  • EAN: 9781631496721
  • Produktnummer: 31783259
  • Verlag: Norton & Company
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 332 S.
  • Masse: H20.6 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.3 cm 282 g
  • Abbildungen: 40 black-and-white illustrations
  • Gewicht: 282

Über den Autor


The author of Fracture: Life and Culture in the West and The Vertigo Years, Philipp Blom was born in Hamburg in 1970. After studying in Vienna and Oxford, he worked in publishing as a journalist and translator in London and Paris. He lives in Vienna.

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