A review by dangerousnerd
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom

informative slow-paced

2.25

My main issue with this book is that it doesn’t support its thesis strongly at all. His central argument is that the small ice age ushered in a new period of marked change because of the change in climate. Instead, what we get is a series of barely related facts about a bunch of stuff that happened during the period but without any central thread linking them to climate change. Interesting, sure, but the title is a misnomer at best and misleading at worst. This book has barely anything to do with the climate and the social change brought therefrom.