{"product_id":"the-frigid-golden-age-climate-change-the-little-ice-age-and-the-dutch-republic-1560-1720-hardback-9781108419314","title":"The Frigid Golden Age; Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720 (Hardback) 9781108419314","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Frigid Golden Age\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eClimate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDagomar Degroot (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108419314, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 February 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.69 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… this book offers a measured and painstaking reconstruction of some of the climate-related challenges facing Dutch society, as probably the most prosperous of the early modern period, in an age of comparatively cool and stormy weather … The book opens with a very clear explanation of the complex dynamics of climate change and climatic systems that governed prevailing winds and pressure systems in north-west Europe … Nevertheless, what this book demonstrates as effectively as any other is the overwhelming significance of the weather and the seasons in early modern European life, and for that reason alone, it deserves to be widely read and lauded.' Paul Warde, Metascience\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDagomar 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: crisis and opportunity in a changing climate\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Little Ice Age\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Commerce and Climate Change: Part I. Preface\u003cbr\u003e 2. Reaching Asia in a stormy, chilly climate\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sailing, floating, riding, and skating through a cooler Europe\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Conflict and Climate Change: Part II. Preface\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cooling, warming, and the wars of independence, 1564–1648\u003cbr\u003e 5. Gales, winds, and Anglo-Dutch antagonism, 1652–88\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Culture and Climate Change: Part III. Preface\u003cbr\u003e 6. Tracing and painting the Little Ice Age\u003cbr\u003e 7. Texts, technologies, and climate change\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: lessons from ice and gold\u003cbr\u003e Appendices.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004083228952,"sku":"9781108419314","price":97.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108419314i.jpg?v=1696754029","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-frigid-golden-age-climate-change-the-little-ice-age-and-the-dutch-republic-1560-1720-hardback-9781108419314","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}