The frigid golden age : climate change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720 / Dagomar Degroot.
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 Dutc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Studies in environment and history.
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| Summary: | 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. Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 364 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-354) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108321303 1108321305 1108410413 9781108410410 1108317588 9781108317580 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108297639 |