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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In May of 1315, it started to rain. It didn't stop until August, anywhere in Europe north of the Pyrenees and west of the Urals; the farmlands of Britain, France, the Baltic and German principalities, Poland, Sweden, and Lithuania were almost completely flooded out. In what is now Belgium, a contemporary observer recorded that it rained for 155 days in a row. For millions of people whose homes and occupations did little to shield them from weather, the rains were bad enough, marking the end of the gentlest climate in 8,000 years. Those deluges were succeeded by some of the coldest winters in European history.cold enough that the Baltic port cities and the rivers feeding them didn't just freeze over, but were iced in for six months, and topsoils turned as hard as concrete. In 1319, a zoonosis--an animal epidemic--appeared, killing up to 80% of northern Europe's cattle, sheep, goats, and oxen. Two years later, another epidemic did the same to the continent's horses. By 1322, one in eight northern Europeans--some six million men, women, and children--had starved to death. But even as famine was reaching every nation on the northern continent, war broke out between England and Scotland, between France and Flanders, and between two rival claimants to the Holy Roman Empire. These conflicts joined with lost harvests, iced-in ports and flooded roads, to turn hunger into starvation.In the end, it was a succession of traumas, rather than any one of them, that was responsible for the Great Famine. Introductory physics students study the phenomenon known as resonance- The tendency of a system, like a pendulum, to oscillate in larger and larger swings when pushed. The Third Horseman is the story of how a seven-year long cycle of resonant forces--rain, cold, disease, and warfare--destroyed the population of northern Europe. William Rosen will show how long-gestating and impersonal forces conspired with human duplicities and ambitions to create one of the greatest disasters in recorded history. Like his previous books, it draws upon a wide variety of disciplines- diplomatic and military history, agronomy--agricultural economics, soil science, and plant biology--meteorology and climatology; and even digestive physiology, nutritional science and gastronomic history.Although The Third Horseman is a story about a particular set of characters in a particular set of circumstances, it is not a polemic about global warming, nor a cautionary tale about the fragility of modern agribusiness. But it will tell the story of the Great Famine in a way that incorporates the most current scientific theories and economic models, allowing readers (and reviewers) to connect the dots from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century.The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history-years before the Black Death, from the author of Justinian's Flea and the forthcoming Miracle CureIn May 1315, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that followed, Europeans would be visited by a series of curses unseen since the third book of Exodus- floods, ice, failures of crops and cattle, and epidemics not just of disease, but of pike, sword, and spear. All told, six million lives-one-eighth of Europe's total population-would be lost.With a category-defying knowledge of science and history, William Rosen tells the stunning story of the oft-overlooked Great Famine with wit and drama and demonstrates what it all means for today's discussions of climate change. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780143127147
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