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Global Crisis

War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
  • Geoffrey Parker
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2017
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An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change

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Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History and associate of the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University, and the 2012 winner of the Heineken Prize for History. He lives in Columbus, OH.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Figures

    ix
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    Preface to the Abridged and Revised Edition

    xi
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    Prologue: Did Someone Say ‘Climate Change’?

    xiii
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    Introduction: The Little Ice Age and the General Crisis

    xix
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  • PART I. THE PLACENTA OF THE CRISIS
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    1. The Little Ice Age

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    2. The General Crisis

    24
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    3. ‘Hunger Is the Greatest Enemy’: The Heart of the Crisis

    49
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    4. Surviving in the Seventeenth Century

    67
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  • PART II. ENDURING THE CRISIS
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    5. The Great Enterprise in China, 1618–84

    89
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    6. The ‘Great Shaking’: Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618–86

    122
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    7. The ‘Ottoman Tragedy’, 1618–83

    150
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    8. Bloodlands: Germany and its Neighbours, 1618–88

    169
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    9. The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618–89

    198
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    10. France in Crisis, 1618–88

    227
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    11. The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to Civil War, 1603–42

    249
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    12. Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642–89

    274
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  • PART III. SURVIVING THE CRISIS
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    13. The Mughals and their Neighbours

    299
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    14. Red Flag over Italy

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    15. The Americas, Africa and Australia

    331
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    16. Getting It Right: Early Tokugawa Japan

    356
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  • PART IV. CONFRONTING THE CRISIS
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    17. ‘Those Who Have No Means of Support’: The Parameters of Popular Resistance

    375
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    18. ‘People Who Hope Only For a Change’: Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and ‘Dirty People of No Name’

    394
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    19. ‘People of Heterodox Beliefs . . . Who Will Join Up with Anyone Who Calls Them’: Disseminating Revolution

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  • PART V. BEYOND THE CRISIS
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    20. Escaping the Crisis

    429
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    21. Warfare State or Welfare State?

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    22. The Great Divergence

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    Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized

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    Epilogue: ‘It’s the Climate, Stupid’

    512
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    Chronology

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    Acknowledgements

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    Conventions

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    Note on Sources

    540
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    Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes

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    Notes

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    Bibliography

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    Index

    622
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Publishing information
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July 25, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9780300226355
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Abridged Edition, Revised Edition
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304
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28 color illus. + 55 fig.
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300226355
eBook ISBN: 9780300226355
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