Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Prologue: Did Someone Say ‘Climate Change’? xv
5. Introduction: The ‘Little Ice Age’ and the ‘General Crisis’ xxi
6. PART I .THE PLACENTA OF THE CRISIS
7. 1 .The Little Ice Age 3
8. 2. The ‘General Crisis’ 26
9. 3 .‘Hunger is the greatest enemy’: The Heart of the Crisis 55
10. 4. ‘A third of the world has died’: Surviving in the Seventeenth Century 77
11. PART II: ENDURING THE CRISIS
12. 5 .The ‘Great Enterprise’ in China, 1618–84 115
13. 6 .‘The great shaking’: Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618–86 152
14. 7. The ‘Ottoman tragedy’, 1618–83 185
15. 8 .The ‘lamentations of Germany’ and its Neighbours, 1618–88 211
16. 9. The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618–89 254
17. 10. France in Crisis, 1618–88 291
18. 11.The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to Civil War, 1603–42 324
19. 12. Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642–89 359
20. PART III: SURVIVING THE CRISIS
21. 13. The Mughals and their Neighbours 399
22. 14. Red Flag over Italy 421
23. 15. The ‘dark continents’: The Americas, Africa and Australia 445
24. 16. Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan 484
25. PART IV :CONFRONTING THE CRISIS
26. 17. ‘Those who have no means of support’: The Parameters of Popular Resistance 509
27. 18. ‘People who hope only for a change’: Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and the ‘dirty people of no name’ 534
28. 19. ‘People of heterodox beliefs . . . who will join up with anyone who calls them’: Disseminating Revolution 561
29. PART V :BEYOND THE CRISIS
30. 20. Escaping the Crisis 591
31. 21 .From Warfare State to Welfare State 612
32. 22 .The Great Divergence 642
33. Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized 668
34. Epilogue: ‘It’s the climate, stupid’ 686
35. chronology 698
36. Acknowledgements 705
37. Conventions 709
38. Sources and Bibliography 710
39. Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes 714
40. Notes 718
41. Bibliography 794
42. Index 846