Little Ice Age How Climate Made History 1300-1850

Name: Little Ice Age How Climate Made History 1300-1850
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ISBN: 9780465022724

ISBN-10: 0465022723

ISBN-13: 9780465022724

Edition: 2002

Authors: Brian Fagan

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Building on research that confirms that the world endured a 500-year cold snap, the author shows how the increasing cold influenced familiar events from Norse exploration to the Industrial Revolution.

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 12/27/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638



Preface


Acknowledgments


Author's Note



Warmth and Its Aftermath



The Medieval Warm Period



The Great Famine



Cooling Begins



The Climatic Seesaw



Storms, Cod and Doggers



A Vast Peasantry



The End of the "Full World"



The Specter of Hunger



The War Against the Glaciers



"More Like Winter Than Summer"



Dearth and Revolution



The Year Without a Summer



An Ghorta Mor



The Modern Warm Period



A Warmer Greenhouse


Notes


Index