{"product_id":"natures-mutiny-how-the-little-ice-age-of-the-long-seventeenth-century-transformed-the-west-and-shaped-the-present-9781631496721","title":"Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailed as an \"arresting\" (Lawrence Klepp, \u003cem\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/em\u003e) account, \u003cem\u003eNature's Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth century that totally transformed Europe's social and political fabric. Best-selling historian Philipp Blom reveals how a new, radically altered Europe emerged out of the \"Little Ice Age\" that diminished crop yields across the continent, forcing thousands to flee starvation in the countryside to burgeoning urban centers, and even froze London's Thames, upon which British citizens erected semipermanent frost fairs with bustling kiosks, taverns, and brothels. Highlighting how politics and culture also changed drastically, Blom evokes the era's most influential artists and thinkers who imagined groundbreaking worldviews to cope with environmental cataclysm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs we face a climate crisis of our own, \"Blom's prodigious synthesis delivers a sharply-focused lesson for the twenty-first century: the profound effects of just a few degrees of climate change can alter the course of civilization, forever\" (Laurence A. Marschall, \u003cem\u003eNatural History\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlom, Philipp:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The author of \u003cem\u003eFracture: Life and Culture in the West\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Vertigo Years\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003ePhilipp Blom\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Hamburg in 1970. After studying in Vienna and Oxford, he worked in publishing as a journalist and translator in London and Paris. He lives in Vienna.","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50422015885586,"sku":"9781631496721","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_991c5695-d532-4159-8cf7-bf3d0ccafa94.jpg?v=1729520248","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/natures-mutiny-how-the-little-ice-age-of-the-long-seventeenth-century-transformed-the-west-and-shaped-the-present-9781631496721","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}