When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Peter N. Miller NATURE’S MUTINY How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century ...
The mania of collecting, a pastime usually reserved for the most wealthy of individuals, has a long history, says German-born journalist Blom. For many collectors, "money is no object, and objects are ...
A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment. By Philipp Blom. Basic Books; 384 pages; $29.95. To be published in Britain in March by Weidenfeld & Nicolson as “Wicked ...
In the beginning of this thoughtful portrait of the interwar years, Blom (A Wicked Company) asks the central question that arose for so many everyday people: after the devastation of WWI, “What values ...
Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present, by Philipp Blom. Liveright. 352 pages. $27.95. Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It has often been said the years between the end of World War I in 1918 and the beginning of World War II in 1939 were only a temporary ...
Originally published in German: Die Welt aus den Angeln (München : Carl Hanser Verlag, 2017). Contents Prologue : Winter Landscape. Life without money ; The great experiment -- "God has abandoned us" ...
IMAGINE, suggests Philipp Blom, that a “voracious but highly selective plague of bookworms” had deprived us of all knowledge of 20th-century history after 1914. How would the early years of the last ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
A deserted farm in South Dakota, where topsoil erosion had caused the Dust Bowl Credit: Photo: The Art Archive / Alamy This time, it seemed as though the preachers who were prophesying the end of the ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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