Climate Catastrophe in the 17th century
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Little Ice Age in Japan
Japan has, how shall i put it, an advantage as they go into the little ice age. And that is that theyre lation has already been reduced by a century of civil wars. Seventeenth century is the last really major change in global climate. But we don't have the first person narratives that we do for the seventeenth century. It took me 35 years to bring the book to fruition. As i say, i don't read japanese. I don't read chinese either. So i tried to identify a source, a single vice, to give a sort of vertebra to the narrative that i was saying. While this happens here, this happens there, i
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