After war, disease and famine, the fourth horseman sits upon a pale horse and brings death."ĭimitra Stathopoulos, The Melbourne Review of Books This book is required reading for anyone concerned about rising sea levels, drought and increasingly severe weather in a era where humankind has made the stakes so much higher. Rosen takes no stand on the issue of climate change today, which makes his work all the more chilling. The groundwork for disaster was laid in the good warm years when populations exploded, and then famine brought a disruption in the food supply.
'Whatever the connections between famine, climate change, plague and a century of wars, they together added up to a demographic shock that upended the arithmetic of feudal manorialism,' he writes. His power lies in the breadth and quality of his research. "Rosen, a former editor and publisher, also wrote the fascinating Justinian’s Flea about a sixth century plague in the Eastern Roman Empire, said to have killed 25 million people. Stuart Whatley in the Los Angeles Review of Books
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