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Author Parker, Geoffrey, 1943- author.
Title Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century / Geoffrey Parker.
Publisher New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2017.
Edition Abridged and revised edition.


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Descript xxvii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
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Edition Abridged and revised edition.
Contents Preface to the Abridged Edition -- Prologue: Did Someone Say "Climate Change"? -- Introduction: The Little Ice Age and the General Crisis -- PART I. THE PLACENTA OF THE CRISIS -- The Little Ice Age -- The General Crisis -- "Hunger is the Greatest Enemy" : The Heart of the Crisis -- Surviving in the Seventeenth Century -- PART II. 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 -- Bloodlands : 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 -- PART III. SURVIVING THE CRISIS -- The Mughals and their Neighbours -- Red Flag over Italy -- The Americas, Africa and Australia -- Getting it Right : Early Tokugawa Japan -- PART IV. 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" -- "eople of Heterodox Beliefs...Who Will Join Up With Anyone Who Calls Them" : Disseminating Revolution -- PART V. BEYOND THE CRISIS -- Escaping the Crisis -- Warfare State or Welfare State? -- The Great Divergence -- Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized -- Epilogue: It's the climate, stupid -- Chronology.
ISBN 9780300219364
0300219369
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Author Parker, Geoffrey, 1943- author.
Subject History, Modern -- 17th century.
Military history -- 17th century.
Civil War -- History -- 17th century.
Revolutions -- History -- 17th century.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- History -- 17th century.
Disasters -- History -- 17th century.
HISTORY / World.
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century.
Descript xxvii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Edition Abridged and revised edition.
Contents Preface to the Abridged Edition -- Prologue: Did Someone Say "Climate Change"? -- Introduction: The Little Ice Age and the General Crisis -- PART I. THE PLACENTA OF THE CRISIS -- The Little Ice Age -- The General Crisis -- "Hunger is the Greatest Enemy" : The Heart of the Crisis -- Surviving in the Seventeenth Century -- PART II. 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 -- Bloodlands : 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 -- PART III. SURVIVING THE CRISIS -- The Mughals and their Neighbours -- Red Flag over Italy -- The Americas, Africa and Australia -- Getting it Right : Early Tokugawa Japan -- PART IV. 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" -- "eople of Heterodox Beliefs...Who Will Join Up With Anyone Who Calls Them" : Disseminating Revolution -- PART V. BEYOND THE CRISIS -- Escaping the Crisis -- Warfare State or Welfare State? -- The Great Divergence -- Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized -- Epilogue: It's the climate, stupid -- Chronology.
ISBN 9780300219364
0300219369
Author Parker, Geoffrey, 1943- author.
Subject History, Modern -- 17th century.
Military history -- 17th century.
Civil War -- History -- 17th century.
Revolutions -- History -- 17th century.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- History -- 17th century.
Disasters -- History -- 17th century.
HISTORY / World.
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  D247 .P37  7 DAYS  AVAILABLE
1 copy being processed for BJL.

Subject History, Modern -- 17th century.
Military history -- 17th century.
Civil War -- History -- 17th century.
Revolutions -- History -- 17th century.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- History -- 17th century.
Disasters -- History -- 17th century.
HISTORY / World.
HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century.
Descript xxvii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Preface to the Abridged Edition -- Prologue: Did Someone Say "Climate Change"? -- Introduction: The Little Ice Age and the General Crisis -- PART I. THE PLACENTA OF THE CRISIS -- The Little Ice Age -- The General Crisis -- "Hunger is the Greatest Enemy" : The Heart of the Crisis -- Surviving in the Seventeenth Century -- PART II. 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 -- Bloodlands : 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 -- PART III. SURVIVING THE CRISIS -- The Mughals and their Neighbours -- Red Flag over Italy -- The Americas, Africa and Australia -- Getting it Right : Early Tokugawa Japan -- PART IV. 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" -- "eople of Heterodox Beliefs...Who Will Join Up With Anyone Who Calls Them" : Disseminating Revolution -- PART V. BEYOND THE CRISIS -- Escaping the Crisis -- Warfare State or Welfare State? -- The Great Divergence -- Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized -- Epilogue: It's the climate, stupid -- Chronology.
ISBN 9780300219364
0300219369
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