The frigid golden age : climate change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720 /

Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The precocious economy, unusual environment, and dynamic intellectual culture of the Dutc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Degroot, Dagomar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Colección:Studies in environment and history.
Temas:
1568-1714
Climatic changes > Netherlands.
Global warming > Netherlands.
Climat > Changements > Pays-Bas.
Réchauffement de la Terre > Pays-Bas.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Climatic changes
Climatology
Global warming
Netherlands > Climate > History.
Netherlands > Climate > History > 17th century.
Netherlands > History > Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.
Netherlands > History > 1648-1714.
Pays-Bas > Climat > Histoire.
Pays-Bas > Climat > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Pays-Bas > Histoire > 1568-1648 (Guerre de Quatre-Vingts Ans)
Pays-Bas > Histoire > 1648-1714.
Netherlands
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : crisis and opportunity in a changing climate
  • The Little Ice Age
  • Reaching Asia in a stormy, chilly climate
  • Sailing, floating, riding, and skating through a cooler Europe
  • Cooling, warming, and the wars of independence, 1564-1648
  • Gales, winds, and Anglo-Dutch antagonism, 1652-1688
  • Tracing and painting the Little Ice Age
  • Texts, technologies, and climate change
  • Conclusion : lessons from ice and gold.

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