Global Crisis War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Name: Global Crisis War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
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ISBN: 9780300153231

ISBN-10: 0300153236

ISBN-13: 9780300153231

Edition: 2013

Authors: Geoffrey Parker

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Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan, from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. The Americas, too, did not escape the turbulence of the time.In this meticulously researched volume, master historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who saw and suffered from the sequence of political, economic, and social crises between 1618 to the late 1680s. Parker also deploys the scientific evidence of climate change during this period. His…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 2.75" tall
Weight: 3.102
Language: English

Geoffrey Parker is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books. He is Andreas Dorpelan Professor of History at Ohio State University.



List of Illustrations


Prologue: Did Someone Say 'Climate Change'?


Introduction: The 'Little Ice Age' and the 'General Crisis'



The Placenta of the Crisis



The Little Ice Age



The 'General Crisis'



'Hunger is the greatest enemy': The Heart of the Crisis



'A third of the world has died': Surviving in the Seventeenth Century



Enduring the Crisis



The 'Great Enterprise' in China, 1618-84



'The great shaking': Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618-86



The 'Ottoman tragedy', 1618-83



The 'lamentations of Germany' and its Neighbours, 1618-88



The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618-89



France in Crisis, 1618-88



The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to Civil War, 1603-42



Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642-89



Surviving the Crisis



The Mughals and their Neighbours



Red Flag over Italy



The 'dark continents': The Americas, Africa and Australia



Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan



Confronting the Crisis



'Those who have no means of support': The Parameters of Popular Resistance



'People who hope only for a change': Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and 'dirty people of no name'



'People of heterodox beliefs … who will join up with anyone who calls them': Disseminating Revolution



Beyond the Crisis



Escaping the Crisis



From Warfare State to Welfare State



The Great Divergence


Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized


Epilogue: 'It's the climate, stupid'


Chronology


Acknowledgements


Note on Conventions


Note on Sources and Bibliography


Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes


Notes


Bibliography


Index