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The Little Ice Age

How Climate Made History 1300-1850

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The Little Ice Age

Auteur(s): Brian Fagan
Narrateur(s): Michael Langan
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The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming.

Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing suspicion: that the world endured a 500-year cold snap, a little ice age, that lasted roughly from AD 1300 until 1850.

With its basis in cutting-edge science, The Little Ice Age offers a new perspective on familiar events. Renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan shows how the increasing cold affected Norse exploration; how changing sea temperatures caused English and Basque fishermen to follow vast shoals of cod all the way to the New World; how a generations-long subsistence crisis in France contributed to social disintegration and ultimately revolution; and how English efforts to improve farm productivity in the face of a deteriorating climate helped pave the way for the Industrial Revolution and hence for global warming.

This is a fascinating, original book for anyone interested in history, climate, or the new subject of how they interact.

©2020 Brian Fagan (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing Anthropologie Environnement Science Sciences atmosphériques Sciences de la Terre
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This was a very good book for historical perspective on climate changes. Essentially the climate does routinely change and can make for much suffering and hard times. This does not mean that humans aren't causing climate change (because we are) but just that regardless of the causes this has happened and it has changed history.
The only negative is that I didn't realize until the end this book is 26 years old being written in 2000. So the last chapter speaking about the 'hottest years on records " being the late 90s sounds pretty tame a quarter of a century and many broken records later.

hard times

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The whole book, or at least the portion I listened to, was narrated like they were doing an ad or daytime tv voice over. Listen to the extract before purchasing to make sure you’re ok with it.

Poorly narrated

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