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Good book, terribly unreliable audiobook narrator who can seemingly only get 10 words out before an inopportune pause and keeps varying the sound level from one paragraph to the next.

10% of the French population died of famine in 1693-4, exacerbated by requisitioning and stockpiling for Louis XIV’s military.

Very valuable point about the specter of hypothermia, in conjunction with malnutrition, which in elderly or young individuals can lead to heart attack in dwellings without central heating that fall below 45 degrees Fahrenheit. As many as 20,000 a year died of this in Britain as late as the 1960s and 1970s.

I wonder the extent to which the Little Ice Age’s passing in the 1800s and Alpine warming shaped the reframing of this region in the metropolitan European imaginary, as extensive glacial cover and attendant local poverty shaped racialized views of mountain dwellers that seem to disappear towards the start of the 20th century, at least per chapter 1 of Ilaria Scaglia, The Emotions of Internationalism.