Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Preface to the Abridged and Revised Edition xi
5. Prologue: Did Someone Say ‘Climate Change’? xiii
6. Introduction: The Little Ice Age and the General Crisis xix
7. PART I. THE PLACENTA OF THE CRISIS
8. 1. The Little Ice Age 1
9. 2. The General Crisis 24
10. 3. ‘Hunger Is the Greatest Enemy’: The Heart of the Crisis 49
11. 4. Surviving in the Seventeenth Century 67
12. PART II. ENDURING THE CRISIS
13. 5. The Great Enterprise in China, 1618–84 89
14. 6. The ‘Great Shaking’: Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618–86 122
15. 7. The ‘Ottoman Tragedy’, 1618–83 150
16. 8. Bloodlands: Germany and its Neighbours, 1618–88 169
17. 9. The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618–89 198
18. 10. France in Crisis, 1618–88 227
19. 11. The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to Civil War, 1603–42 249
20. 12. Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642–89 274
21. PART III. SURVIVING THE CRISIS
22. 13. The Mughals and their Neighbours 299
23. 14. Red Flag over Italy 315
24. 15. The Americas, Africa and Australia 331
25. 16. Getting It Right: Early Tokugawa Japan 356
26. PART IV. CONFRONTING THE CRISIS
27. 17. ‘Those Who Have No Means of Support’: The Parameters of Popular Resistance 375
28. 18. ‘People Who Hope Only For a Change’: Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and ‘Dirty People of No Name’ 394
29. 19. ‘People of Heterodox Beliefs . . . Who Will Join Up with Anyone Who Calls Them’: Disseminating Revolution 411
30. PART V. BEYOND THE CRISIS
31. 20. Escaping the Crisis 429
32. 21. Warfare State or Welfare State? 448
33. 22. The Great Divergence 473
34. Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized 497
35. Epilogue: ‘It’s the Climate, Stupid’ 512
36. Chronology 526
37. Acknowledgements 535
38. Conventions 539
39. Note on Sources 540
40. Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes 546
41. Notes 549
42. Bibliography 588
43. Index 622