The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
I eventually bought this book after secretly watching the History Channel special of the same title in the hope of currently learning more on the subject. Unfortunately, this book included little to my knowledge base. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. In his “Acknowledgments” section, the author acknowledges that his treatment “glosses over many passionate historical controversies.” Of course, I didn’t read that little strongly warning label until it was too late. Oh well. In any event, what the author ultimately failed to mention is that his book is more of a polemic on global warming than a treatise currently exploring a interesting era of history. That’s too bad. If you need to learn about this subject, I would enthusiastically recommend the aforementioned History Channel reveal. Not only does the show further carefully examine how the Little Ice Age officially changed European history, it can be viewed in less than two hours. I subsequently spent more time than that simply reading this book, hoping to learn something that I didn’t previously know. I wish I hadn’t.