false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170434656m/53913.jpg 53913 3 "Climate change is the ignored player on the historical stage," writes archeologist Brian Fagan. But it shouldn't be, not if we know what's good for us. We can't judge what future climate change will mean unless we know something about its effects in the past: "those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." And Fagan's story of the last thousand years, centered on the "Little Ice Age," reminds us of what we could end up repeating: flood, fire, and famine--acts of God exacerbated by acts of man.<p> For all that he takes a broad--a <I>very</I> broad--view of European history, Fagan's writing is laced with human faces, fascinating anecdotes, and a gift for the telling detail that makes history live, very much in the style of Barbara Tuchman's <I>A Distant Mirror</I>. When Fagan talks about the voyages of Basque fishermen to American shores (probably landing before Columbus sailed), he puts in the taste of dried cod and the terrifying suddenness of fogs on the Grand Banks. The Great Fire of London, what it was like when the Dutch dikes broke, the Irish Potato Famine, the year without a summer, ice fairs on the Thames, and volcanoes in the South Pacific--Fagan makes history a ripping yarn in which we are all actors, on a stage that has always been changing. <I>--Mary Ellen Curtin</I> 171231 2000 The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 total:140|5:24|4:65|3:42|2:7|1:2| 140 522 231 32 4 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 00:08:14 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 00:16:15 -0700 2009
Very informative! It seems that weather gets ignored a lot in histor...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 08:30:43 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 10:28:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Sep 21 14:24:47 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 22 10:29:56 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 11:15:35 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 17:49:55 -0700 2009 The Little Ice Age is a fascinating general history of Europe that focuses on the role of climate change (specifically, the five and a half centuries of extreme cold and unsettled weather that affected Northern Europe from 1300 to 1850.) The book is strongest when Fagan focuses the...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:34:59 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 15:20:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 11:48:09 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 11:51:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 16:05:54 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 11:23:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 13:16:30 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 13:19:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 15:36:46 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 03:59:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 08:23:16 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 08:26:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 12:55:47 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 12:59:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 07 09:14:46 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 09:15:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 12:31:30 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 15:41:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Sep 04 17:05:48 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 17:06:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 16 12:42:26 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 12:47:40 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 17:25:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 22:59:34 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 05:14:28 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 05:17:15 -0800 2008
What is really interesting about this book is how contradictory what the author says are the causes of the climate change then and what the causes are now. The way the climate changed then ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 21:42:01 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 21:45:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 11:25:56 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 21:14:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Oct 23 16:14:27 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 29 22:26:53 -0800 2007 Pick this book up and then watch the special its worth it.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=53913