William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman

Broschiertes Buch

The Year Without Summer

1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

Beschreibung

The author of Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation traces a year of dramatic global change in the aftermath of a massive early 19th-century Indonesian volcanic eruption that disrupted weather patterns and triggered food shortages, religious revivals, migrations and a typhus epidemic.

Autor

WILLIAM K. KLINGAMAN has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland. He is the co-author The Year Without Summer with Nicholas P. Klingaman, as well as the author of narrative histories of the years 1918, 1929 and 1941.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan US / St. Martin's Griffin
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 136mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9781250042750
• ISBN-10: 1250042755
• Artikelnr.: 39111761