Blame it on the rain : how the weather has changed history /
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| Author / Creator: | Lee, Laura, 1969- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Harper, c2006. |
| Description: | xi, 314 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6163869 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Humans on the Brink of Extinction
- Noah's Flood
- The Population of Australia
- Sea Breezes Save Western Culture
- Tempestas Cooritur: The Battle of Teutoburg Forest
- Why the Sun Never Sets on the British Isles
- The First Kamikaze
- Loss of the True Cross
- Greenland's Vikings: Victims of Climate Change and Cultural Stubbornness
- The Treaty That Fell from the Sky
- My Pope's Better Than Your Pope: Lightning and the Great Schism
- The Mud That Made England
- The Fog of War
- Lost Siberians
- Which Witch Did This?
- A Protestant Wind Destroys the Spanish Armada
- Thanks to the Wind the Lost Colony Remains America's Greatest Mystery
- Gee, It's Cold in Russia, Part I: Charles XII Invades Russia
- The Secret of the Stradivarius
- Another Protestant Wind Blows a New King to England's Throne
- Ben Franklin and That Kite
- Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares
- Washington and the Weather
- Hail to the French Revolution
- Rain Ruins Robespierre
- The United Irishmen, the French, and the Rain
- A Slave Revolt Washed Away
- Gee, It's Cold in Russia, Part II: Napoleon Invades Russia
- Does That Star-Spangled Banner Yet Wave?
- Tecumseh Is Lost in the Fog
- The Water of Waterloo
- Gee, It's Cold in Russia, Part III: A Senseless War Extended by the Weather
- The Guy with the Sideburns Gets Stuck in the Mud
- The Storm That Saved Civil War Prisoners
- What Is That Guy in "The Scream" Afraid of?
- A Gust of Wind and Aviation Obscurity
- El Nino and Dashed Polar Dreams
- Cold Shaving and Jacob Schick
- The Failure of Forecasting and the Death of Lord Kitchener
- Rain Clouds Put an End to the Age of the Airship
- Gee, It's Cold in Finland: The Winter War
- Gee, It's Cold in Russia, Part IV: Hitler Invades Russia
- D-Day
- Blooming with Atoms: A New Cloud Formation, the Mushroom
- Sunshine over Hiroshima
- Misreading the Monsoons
- Dewey Defeats Truman
- Canadian Chill Saves a National Park from Nuclear Contamination
- Heat and the Powder Keg
- Making Monsoons
- Lucy and Her Friends
- Operation Thwarted by Desert Storm
- Meteorology and Rocketry
- Blood Rain and World War III
- Nature Does Not Carry a Passport
- Bibliography
