| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 364 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Studies in environment and history
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Studies in environment and history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-354) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : crisis and opportunity in a changing climate -- The Little Ice Age -- Reaching Asia in a stormy, chilly climate -- Sailing, floating, riding, and skating through a cooler Europe -- Cooling, warming, and the wars of independence, 1564-1648 -- Gales, winds, and Anglo-Dutch antagonism, 1652-1688 -- Tracing and painting the Little Ice Age -- Texts, technologies, and climate change -- Conclusion : lessons from ice and gold. |
| 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. |
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Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Netherlands.
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Global warming -- Netherlands.
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Netherlands -- Climate -- History.
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Netherlands -- Climate -- History -- 17th century.
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Netherlands -- History -- Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.
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Netherlands -- History -- 1648-1714.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography. |
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology. |
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Climatic changes |
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Climatology |
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Global warming |
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Netherlands |
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Eighty Years' War (Netherlands : 1568-1648) |
| Chronological Term |
1568-1714 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Degroot, Dagomar. Frigid golden age. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018 9781108419314 (DLC) 2017055389 (OCoLC)1002122168 |
| ISBN |
9781108321303 (electronic book) |
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1108321305 (electronic book) |
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1108410413 |
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9781108410410 |
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1108317588 |
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9781108317580 |
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9781108297639 |
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1108297633 |
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9781108419314 (hardcover) |
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1108419313 (print) |
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9781108410410 (paperback) |
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