Little Ice Age - Couverture souple

Fagan, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1541618599 ISBN 13 : 9781541618596

Editeur : Basic Books, 2019

Synopsis

The Little Ice Age tells the fascinating story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history. Using sources ranging from the dates of long-ago wine harvests and the business records of medieval monasteries to modern chemical analysis of ice cores, renowned archaeologist Brian Fagan reveals how a 500-year cold snap began in the fourteenth century. As Fagan shows, the increasingly cold and stormy weather dramatically altered fishing and farming practices, and it shaped familiar events, from Norse exploration to the settlement of North America, from the French Revolution to the Irish potato famine to the Industrial Revolution.

Now updated with a new preface discussing the latest historical climate research, The Little Ice Age offers deeply important context for understanding today's age of global warming. As the Little Ice Age shows, climate change does not come in gentle, easy stages, and its influence on human life is profound.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brian Fagan (1946-2025) was one of the world's leading archaeological writers. He was a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller The Great Warming. 

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed Europe and the world, from a renowned archaeologist -- updated with a new preface on the latest climate research

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1541618599
• ISBN 13: 9781541618596
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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