Philipp Blom

Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A sweeping story, embracing developments in economics and science, philosophy and exploration, religion and politics. . . . Beautifully clear. John Lanchester, The New Yorker

Hailed as an arresting (Lawrence Klepp, New Criterion) account, Nature's Mutiny chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth century that totally transformed Europe's social and political fabric. Best-selling historian Philipp Blom reveals how a new, radically altered Europe emerged out of the Little Ice Age that diminished crop yields across the continent, forcing thousands to flee starvation in the countryside to burgeoning urban centers, and even froze London's Thames, upon which British citizens erected semipermanent frost fairs with bustling kiosks, taverns, and brothels. Highlighting how politics and culture also changed drastically, Blom evokes the era's most influential artists and thinkers who imagined groundbreaking worldviews to cope with environmental cataclysm.

As we face a climate crisis of our own, Blom's prodigious synthesis delivers a sharply-focused lesson for the twenty-first century: the profound effects of just a few degrees of climate change can alter the course of civilization, forever (Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631494055
• Artikelnr.: 59589707

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

*
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
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+ Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgments
+ Section - ii: Notes
+ Section - iii: Bibliography
+ Section - iiii: Illustration Credits
+ Index - v: Index