Philipp Blom is a historian and writer who lives in Vienna. He is the author of numerous works including Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present .
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Up into the Air Prologue: Buy Me a Cloud I MYTH The World on a Vase Gilgamesh the Hero The View from the Parapet The Free Market of Offerings Before the Flood In Search of Lost Matriarchy In Search of Presumed Religion The Dancing God King of the World, King of Assyria ... and subjugate it Lost in Translation? Look on My works! The Triumph of Light over Darkness The Map of Misreadings II LOGOS Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Why Europe? Technology and the Burden of Empire The Justification Industry The Age of Iron Monsieur Grat and His Master 'If only I could paint his spirit!' The Canon and the Antichrist An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump The Theology of Fish Lisbon A Work of Nature Virtuous Terror Carte Blanche Stuffed and Exhibited The Silent Death of Saartjie Baartman Hare Hunting Modern Times III COSMOS Agony The One-Armed Lumberjack Liberal Lifelong Lies The World as Clockwork Admiration for Cannibals Entangled Life A Handful of Earth Risky Thinking Notes Index
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Up into the Air Prologue: Buy Me a Cloud I MYTH The World on a Vase Gilgamesh the Hero The View from the Parapet The Free Market of Offerings Before the Flood In Search of Lost Matriarchy In Search of Presumed Religion The Dancing God King of the World, King of Assyria ... and subjugate it Lost in Translation? Look on My works! The Triumph of Light over Darkness The Map of Misreadings II LOGOS Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Why Europe? Technology and the Burden of Empire The Justification Industry The Age of Iron Monsieur Grat and His Master 'If only I could paint his spirit!' The Canon and the Antichrist An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump The Theology of Fish Lisbon A Work of Nature Virtuous Terror Carte Blanche Stuffed and Exhibited The Silent Death of Saartjie Baartman Hare Hunting Modern Times III COSMOS Agony The One-Armed Lumberjack Liberal Lifelong Lies The World as Clockwork Admiration for Cannibals Entangled Life A Handful of Earth Risky Thinking Notes Index
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