L is for Little Ice Age

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