COVER:  http://i.imgur.com/2dZDMC0.jpg
TITLE: The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, updated ed. (2019)
COPYRIGHT: core: 2000; afterword: 2019
GENRE: Nonfiction / Science / Global Warming & Climate Change
AUTHOR: Brian Fagan
ISBN-13: 9781541618572
BOOK SPECS: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/brian-fagan/the-little-ice-age/9781541618572/
FILE SPECS: EPUB format (reflowable format), bookmarks, 21 MB

DESCRIPTION: 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-The Little Ice Age-that lasted roughly from A.D. 1300 until 1850. 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. 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.

BRIEF CONTENTS:
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Preface
Author’s Note
PART ONE : WARMTH AND ITS AFTERMATH
 1. The Medieval Warm Period
 2. The Great Famine
PART TWO : COOLING BEGINS
 3. The Climatic Seesaw
 4. Storms, Cod and Doggers
 5. A Vast Peasantry
PART THREE : THE END OF THE "FULL WORLD"
 6. The Specter of Hunger
 7. The War Against the Glaciers
 8. "More Like Winter Than Summer"
 9. Dearth and Revolution
 10. The Year Without a Summer
 11. An Ghorta Mór
PART FOUR : THE MODERN WARM PERIOD
 12. A Warmer Greenhouse
Afterword (NEW)
Notes


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