This week Will and Alisha step back in time to the winter wonderland that wasn't: the Little Ice Age. Find out how something that sounds so adorable helped change everything, from music to Manchuria; from grapes to grave-robbing; from potatoes to persecution of religious minorities who just happened to be there...and much, much more, on this week's Enter the Rabbit Hole.
Sources:
Books:
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the P...
This week Will and Alisha step back in time to the winter wonderland that wasn't: the Little Ice Age. Find out how something that sounds so adorable helped change everything, from music to Manchuria; from grapes to grave-robbing; from potatoes to persecution of religious minorities who just happened to be there...and much, much more, on this week's Enter the Rabbit Hole.
Sources:
Books:
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present (Philipp Blom, Feb 2019)
Articles:
How the Little Ice Age Changed History (John Lanchester, New Yorker, April 2019)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/how-the-little-ice-age-changed-history
https://www.britannica.com/science/Little-Ice-Age
Little Ice Age (K. Jan Oosthoek, Environmental History Resources, Jun 2015)
https://www.eh-resources.org/little-ice-age/
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/articles/littleiceage.pdf
“Little Ice Age.” The Science Teacher (vol. 79, no. 3, 2012, pp. 32–35. JSTOR)
www.jstor.org/stable/43557385. Accessed 19 Aug. 2021.
Stradivari violins’ brilliant clarity and the little ice age (Lyn Kelly, History 101, July 2019)
https://www.history101.com/stradivari-violins-wood-little-ice-age/
The Little Ice Age in Europe (Prof. Scott A.Mandia, Feb 2018)
https://www.sunysuffolk.edu/explore-academics/faculty-and-staff/faculty-websites/scott-mandia/lia/little_ice_age.html
Op-Ed: Two irrational responses to climate change: Witch hunts and denial (Cynthia Barnett, LA Times, Jan 2016)
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0124-barnett-king-james-little-ice-age-20160124-story.html
How Climate Changes Triggered Literal Witch Hunts Through The Ages (David Bressan, Forbes, Nov 2015)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2015/11/30/how-climate-change-triggered-literal-witch-hunts-through-the-ages/?sh=58f986cd3d7c
“The Little Ice Age and the Jews: Environmental History and the Mercurial Nature of Jewish: Christian Relations in Early Modern Germany.” (Dean Phillip Bell, AJS Review, 2008)
www.jstor.org/stable/27564325
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800 (Robert Warren Anderson, Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama, The Economic Journal, 2015)
https://mason.gmu.edu/~mkoyama2/About_files/Jewish_Persecutions_and_Weather_Shocks.pdf
“Climate as a Contributing Factor in the Demise of Angkor, Cambodia.” (Buckley, Brendan M., et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010)
www.jstor.org/stable/25665249
Some places flourished in the Little Ice Age. There are lessons for us now.(Dagomar Degroot, Washington Post, February 2018)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/some-places-flourished-in-the-little-ice-age-there-are-lessons-for-us-now/2018/02/16/455fb2d8-0c25-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html
Climate Change, Desertification, and Societal Responses along the Mu Us Desert Margin during the Ming Dynasty. (Cui, Jianxin, et al. Weather, Climate, and Society, 2017)
www.jstor.org/stable/26388198
Videos:
How To Survive the Little Ice Age (PBS Eon, Apr 2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-YLTbm2GNQ&ab_channel=PBSEons
Little Ice Age, Part 1: Medieval Meltdown (Channel Legendarium, Oct 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXLNCgjq9K0&list=PLep5p07sP4pYi6EcFZ16pAGLO3VpQeKi2&ab_channel=ChannelLegendarium
‘Little Ice Age’ caused by death of 55-million Indigenous people after colonization: study (Global News, Feb 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSCivw4q_p0&ab_channel=CrashCourse
Climate Change, Chaos, and The Little Ice Age - Crash Course World History 206 (Crash Course, Aug 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF8AAJSTJoM&ab_channel=CrashCourse
Audio:
Early Modern Climate Change: “The Little Ice Age” Hits Central Europe (Exploring Central European History: A Wirth Institute Podcast with Joseph F. Patrouch, Sep 2020)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/52vWFGgOuhT4gcDasmnmw6?si=BTW-4fsWQ56ovvYJT4SEtQ&dl_branch=1
Little Ice Age: Weird Weather, Witchcraft, Fashion & Famine (Dig: A History Podcast, Nov 2017)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7fWn4Tbf2ZoECVFoC8Sse4?si=89d0O7EdSrqRdJ3XYIkwnQ&dl_branch=1
