William K Klingaman William K. Klingaman, Nicholas The Year Withou (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Year Without SummerCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/11/2014ISBN-10: 1250042755EAN: 9781250042750ISBN: 9781250042750Publisher: St Martin's PressDescription: In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern U.S. and Europe in the summer of 1816. In the U.S., the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and extensive migration from New England to the Midwest. In Europe, the cold and wet summer led to famine, food riots, the transformation of stable communities into wandering beggars, and one of the worst typhus epidemics in history. 1816 was the year Frankenstein was written. It was also the year Turner painted his fiery sunsets. All of these things are linked to global climate change - something we are quite aware of now, but that was utterly mysterious to people in the nineteenth century, who concocted all sorts of reasons for such an ungenial season. Making use of a wealth of source material and employing a compelling narrative approach featuring peasants and royalty, politicians, writers, and scientists, The Year Without Summer by William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman examines not only the climate change engendered by this event, but also its effects on politics, the economy, the arts, and social structures.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 209mmItem Length: 139mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 307gAuthor: William K Klingaman, William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman, William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman, David Colacci, Tantor AudioGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesNarrator: David ColacciType: MeteorologyRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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