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Lädt ... Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Presentvon Philipp Blom
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. DNF p.130. Lost interest and title didn't really relate to contents. Nature's Mutiny by German historian Philipp Blom is reminiscent of a Jared Diamond book. He asks a question about our modern day and looks back on history for parallels to test a 'natural experiment'. Blom asks, if the climate is rapidly changing, how does society respond? He picks the Little Ice Age as it as the last time the climate changed rapidly, about 2 C colder during a roughly 100 year period. He chooses Europe because of the documentation available and his professional background. What he proposes is society become more mercantile orientated because of increased globalization which was a survival response to the failed harvests and other conditions that made life more difficult, requiring expanded trade to bring in resources needed. Capitalism, rationalism, science were all responses to a more difficult environment. Of course it is not that simple there were contingencies specific to Europe, other places in the world didn't respond this way. So it's hard to say what one can really conclude from Blom's investigation. Nevertheless it is an interesting overview of various aspects of the 17th century, anything by Blom is worth reading. This is a very readable history of Europe during the 17th and late 16th centuries. It describes the many profound changes in philosophy, science, agriculture, and economics that occurred during this time period, explaining how each of these areas reacted to the challenges caused by the little ice age. The last few chapters reflect on how this history relates to our own reaction to today's climate change challenges. There are basically two ways to approach this book, which is essentially an extended essay. On one hand, you can treat it as a potted history of how the Little Ice Age of the subtitle was a hammer that broke the Medieval mindset and opened the way to the Enlightenment and market values that, twenty or so years ago, seemed to represent the "end of history." However, Blom (who wrote this book as a way of understanding how societies respond to global climate changes), suggests that the our much-celebrated market and rationalist values should be understood as a very manicured version of the intellectual ferment of the "long" seventeenth century, and that the way forward is going to depend on setting aside cultural triumphalism and engaging in some hard-headed engagement with the world as it is. This would entail, at the very least, a more modest understanding of our personal place in the world. Otherwise Humanity would seem to be in store for another war of all against all. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Lange kalte Winter und kurze kühle Sommer: Im 17. Jahrhundert veränderte sich das Klima in Europa dramatisch. Das Getreide wurde knapp, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft torkelten in eine tiefe Krise. Die Kleine Eiszeit vermittelt uns eine Vorstellung von den schweren Verwerfungen, die ein Klimawandel auslöst. Die Menschen versuchten sich mit Hilfe von Aufklärung, Wissenschaft und Technik aus der Abhängigkeit von der Natur zu befreien. Aber heute stößt diese moderne Welt an ihre Grenzen, weil sie eine erneute Klimakatastrophe heraufbeschwört. Philipp Blom entfaltet ein großartiges historisches Panorama, in dem wir die Herausforderungen der Gegenwart erkennen. „Am überzeugendsten kann Blom seine These da belegen, wo er die klimabedingte Revolution der europäischen Landwirtschaft beschreibt. In Zeiten schlechterer Ernten hatte der feudale Subsistenz-Ackerbau ausgedient. Um die Ernährung zu sichern, bedurfte es jetzt massenhafter Getreideimporte... Blom hat eine lehrreiche Geschichte der Frühneuzeit verfasst, die gewiss auch Anlass gibt, über Zusammenhänge zwischen Klima und Innovation nachzudenken. Die These der Geburt der Moderne aus einem Kälteschock verdient indes ein Fragezeichen“ (deutschlandfunk.de) Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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