Dagomar Degroot: 1 book
The Frigid Golden Age
Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
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...
