The Little Ice Age

Dominic Raison: I think Geoffrey Parker, it's a fantastic book and a huge kudos to raise the subject single handedly about ideas around things like the little ice age. The problem is going granular is exactly when does this period start? And the 17th century makes sense to all of us historians because we like the idea of round numbers like 1600 and 1700. But there are places that are immune from those kinds of problems such as Japan and the Dutch Republic. It speaks to the resilience of the political structures that allow people to navigate crisis. So just before we come on to the huge climate apocalypse, I what we're living now, just to row back and say that climate