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 poi

Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-st

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