Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century / Geoffrey Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Geoffrey, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Modern--17th century.

History, Modern.

Military history--17th century.

Military history.

Civil war--History--17th century.

Civil war.

Revolutions--History--17th century.

Revolutions.

Climatic changes--Social aspects--History--17th century.

Climatic changes.

Disasters--History--17th century.

Disasters.

History.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxix, 871 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Contents:

Part I The Placenta of the Crisis 1

1 The Little Ice Age 3

2 The 'General Crisis' 26

3 'Hunger is the greatest enemy': The Heart of the Crisis 55

4 'A third of the world has died': Surviving in the Seventeenth Century 77

Part II Enduring the Crisis 111

5 The 'Great Enterprise' in China, 1618-84 115

6 'The great shaking': Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618-86 152

7 The 'Ottoman tragedy', 1618-83 185

8 The 'lamentations of Germany' and its Neighbours, 1618-88 211

9 The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618-89 254

10 France in Crisis, 1618-88 291

11 The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to Civil War, 1603-42 324

12 Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642-89 359

Part III Surviving the Crisis 397

13 The Mughals and their Neighbours 399

14 Red Flag over Italy 421

15 The 'dark continents': The Americas, Africa and Australia 445

16 Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan 484

Part IV Confronting the Crisis 507

17 'Those who have no means of support': The Parameters of Popular Resistance 509

18 'People who hope only for a change': Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and 'dirty people of no name' 534

19 'People of heterodox beliefs ... who will join up with anyone who calls them': Disseminating Revolution 561

Part V Beyond the Crisis 587

20 Escaping the Crisis 591

21 From Warfare State to Welfare State 612

22 The Great Divergence 642.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300153231

0300153236

OCLC:

785865028