The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
Extremely well researched book on climate history. It shows how temperature was usually dipped in the middle ages (1300-1850) and that probably caused a lot other societal changes that shaped the middle ages. No specific reason for this little ice age can be certainly found, but it had deep common aspects in mostly north-western europe. This was the time when vikings abondoned Greenland, why spanish armada built partially ineffective due to a gale weather, how french revolution was moved by climate conditions and lot more. However each chapter begins with poor crops, drought, famine, hunger, death becomes the reader gloomy. Well fact is fact but then I widely expected more weather information rather than common effects on which this book was a mostly bit low as per my expectations.