Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames-with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city. Recounting the deep legacy and far-ranging consequences of this "Little Ice Age," acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had suddenly, but ineradicably, changed by the mid-seventeenth century. While…mehr
Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames-with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city. Recounting the deep legacy and far-ranging consequences of this "Little Ice Age," acclaimed historian Philipp Blom reveals how the European landscape had suddenly, but ineradicably, changed by the mid-seventeenth century. While apocalyptic weather patterns destroyed entire harvests and incited mass migrations, they gave rise to the growth of European cities, the emergence of early capitalism, and the vigorous stirrings of the Enlightenment. A timely examination of how a society responds to profound and unexpected change, Nature's Mutiny will transform the way we think about climate change in the twenty-first century and beyond.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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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* o Unit - 1: PROLOGUE: Winter Landscape * Chapter - 1: Life without Money * Chapter - 2: The Great Experiment * o Unit - 2: "GOD HAS ABANDONED US": Europe, 1570-1600 * Chapter - 3: A Monk on the Run * Chapter - 4: God's Wind and Waves * Chapter - 5: Harsh Frosts and Burning Sun * Chapter - 6: A Time of Confusion and a Fiery Mountain * Chapter - 7: Pilgrims and Their Hunger * Chapter - 8: Truth and Wine * Chapter - 9: Wine in Vienna * Chapter - 10: The Lights Go Out * Chapter - 11: Witches and Spoiled Harvests * Chapter - 12: The Truth in the Stars * Chapter - 13: Doctor Faustus * Chapter - 14: Infinite Worlds * Chapter - 15: The Tower of Books * o Unit - 3: THE AGE OF IRON * Chapter - 16: Hortus Botanicus * Chapter - 17: Revolutionary Places * Chapter - 18: The City Devours Its Children * Chapter - 19: The Magic of Green Cheese * Chapter - 20: The Great Transformation * Chapter - 21: A Picture of the World * Chapter - 22: Idle Talk and Fabrications * Chapter - 23: A Warning and a Call to Repent * Chapter - 24: Tears Too Plentiful to Count * Chapter - 25: The Revolution of the Barrel of a Musket * Chapter - 26: Sell More to Strangers * Chapter - 27: The State as Machine * Chapter - 28: A Profitable Trade * Chapter - 29: The Curse of Silver * Chapter - 30: Officer, Retired * Chapter - 31: The Subversive Republic of Letters * Chapter - 32: Germanus incredibilis * Chapter - 33: Virtue in the Drowning Cell * Chapter - 34: Leviathan * Chapter - 35: An Inventory of Morality * o Unit - 4: ON COMETS AND OTHER CELESTIAL LIGHTS * Chapter - 36: The Madness of Crowds * Chapter - 37: The Antichrist * Chapter - 38: The Messiah and the Whore * Chapter - 39: The Fair on the Ice * Chapter - 40: The Face of Change * Chapter - 41: The Price of Change * Chapter - 42: Tapissier du roi * Chapter - 43: The Public Sphere and the Vices of Bees * Chapter - 44: The Floating Reverend * o Unit - 5: EPILOGUE: Supplement to The Fable of the Bees * Chapter - 45: Songbirds, Wood Lice, and Corals * Chapter - 46: Freedom and Luxury * Chapter - 47: Inherited Compromises * Chapter - 48: New Metaphors * Chapter - 49: The Theology of the Market * Chapter - 50: The Market and the Fortress * o + Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgments + Section - ii: Notes + Section - iii: Bibliography + Section - iiii: Illustration Credits + Index - v: Index
* o Unit - 1: PROLOGUE: Winter Landscape * Chapter - 1: Life without Money * Chapter - 2: The Great Experiment * o Unit - 2: "GOD HAS ABANDONED US": Europe, 1570-1600 * Chapter - 3: A Monk on the Run * Chapter - 4: God's Wind and Waves * Chapter - 5: Harsh Frosts and Burning Sun * Chapter - 6: A Time of Confusion and a Fiery Mountain * Chapter - 7: Pilgrims and Their Hunger * Chapter - 8: Truth and Wine * Chapter - 9: Wine in Vienna * Chapter - 10: The Lights Go Out * Chapter - 11: Witches and Spoiled Harvests * Chapter - 12: The Truth in the Stars * Chapter - 13: Doctor Faustus * Chapter - 14: Infinite Worlds * Chapter - 15: The Tower of Books * o Unit - 3: THE AGE OF IRON * Chapter - 16: Hortus Botanicus * Chapter - 17: Revolutionary Places * Chapter - 18: The City Devours Its Children * Chapter - 19: The Magic of Green Cheese * Chapter - 20: The Great Transformation * Chapter - 21: A Picture of the World * Chapter - 22: Idle Talk and Fabrications * Chapter - 23: A Warning and a Call to Repent * Chapter - 24: Tears Too Plentiful to Count * Chapter - 25: The Revolution of the Barrel of a Musket * Chapter - 26: Sell More to Strangers * Chapter - 27: The State as Machine * Chapter - 28: A Profitable Trade * Chapter - 29: The Curse of Silver * Chapter - 30: Officer, Retired * Chapter - 31: The Subversive Republic of Letters * Chapter - 32: Germanus incredibilis * Chapter - 33: Virtue in the Drowning Cell * Chapter - 34: Leviathan * Chapter - 35: An Inventory of Morality * o Unit - 4: ON COMETS AND OTHER CELESTIAL LIGHTS * Chapter - 36: The Madness of Crowds * Chapter - 37: The Antichrist * Chapter - 38: The Messiah and the Whore * Chapter - 39: The Fair on the Ice * Chapter - 40: The Face of Change * Chapter - 41: The Price of Change * Chapter - 42: Tapissier du roi * Chapter - 43: The Public Sphere and the Vices of Bees * Chapter - 44: The Floating Reverend * o Unit - 5: EPILOGUE: Supplement to The Fable of the Bees * Chapter - 45: Songbirds, Wood Lice, and Corals * Chapter - 46: Freedom and Luxury * Chapter - 47: Inherited Compromises * Chapter - 48: New Metaphors * Chapter - 49: The Theology of the Market * Chapter - 50: The Market and the Fortress * o + Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgments + Section - ii: Notes + Section - iii: Bibliography + Section - iiii: Illustration Credits + Index - v: Index
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