Format:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 364 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
9781108297639
Series Statement:
Studies in environment and history
Content:
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 Dutch Republic in its seventeenth-century Golden Age allowed it to thrive as neighboring societies unraveled in the face of extremes in temperature and precipitation. By tracing the occasionally counterintuitive manifestations of climate change from global to local scales, Degroot finds that the Little Ice Age presented not only challenges for Dutch citizens but also opportunities that they aggressively exploited in conducting commerce, waging war, and creating culture. The overall success of their Republic in coping with climate change offers lessons that we would be wise to heed today, as we confront the growing crisis of global warming
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108410410
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108419314
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108410410
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Degroot, Dagomar The frigid Golden Age Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781108419314
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108410410
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9781108419314
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Geography
Keywords:
Niederlande
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Klimaänderung
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Kleine Eiszeit
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Geschichte 1560-1720
DOI:
10.1017/9781108297639
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