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The Year Without Summer 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

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By: William K Klingaman(Author), Nicholas P Klingaman(Author)
352 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations
The Year Without Summer
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  • The Year Without Summer ISBN: 9781250042750 Paperback Apr 2014 Out of Print #213645
  • The Year Without Summer ISBN: 9780312676452 Hardback Mar 2013 Out of Print #204749
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In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes The Year Without Summer – a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year – mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the North-eastern U.S. and Europe in the summer of 1816.

In the U.S., the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and extensive migration from New England to the Midwest. In Europe, the cold and wet summer led to famine, food riots, the transformation of stable communities into wandering beggars, and one of the worst typhus epidemics in history. 1816 was the year Frankenstein was written. It was also the year Turner painted his fiery sunsets. All of these things are linked to global climate change – something we are quite aware of now, but that was utterly mysterious to people in the nineteenth century, who concocted all sorts of reasons for such an ungenial season. Making use of a wealth of source material and employing a compelling narrative approach featuring peasants and royalty, politicians, writers, and scientists, The Year Without Summer examines not only the climate change engendered by this event, but also its effects on politics, the economy, the arts, and social structures.

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William K Klingaman has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland. He is the author of six previous books, including narrative histories of the years 1918, 1929 and 1941. Nicholas P Klingaman holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Reading.

Out of Print
By: William K Klingaman(Author), Nicholas P Klingaman(Author)
352 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations
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