LEADER 05193nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910465571703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-299-28422-1 010 $a0-300-18919-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300189193 035 $a(CKB)2560000000099625 035 $a(EBL)3421144 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835426 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12364747 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835426 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10989757 035 $a(PQKB)11294850 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421144 035 $a(DE-B1597)485971 035 $a(OCoLC)1024051466 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300189193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421144 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10670429 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL459672 035 $a(OCoLC)923602380 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000099625 100 $a20130315d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGlobal crisis$b[electronic resource] $ewar, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century /$fGeoffrey Parker 210 $aNew Haven ;$aLondon $cYale University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (672 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-15323-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPrologue: Did Someone Say 'Climate Change'? --$tIntroduction: The 'Little Ice Age' and the 'General Crisis' --$t1 .The Little Ice Age --$t2. The 'General Crisis' --$t3 .'Hunger is the greatest enemy': The Heart of the Crisis --$t4. 'A third of the world has died': Surviving in the Seventeenth Century --$t5 .The 'Great Enterprise' in China, 1618-84 --$t6 .'The great shaking': Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618-86 --$t7. The 'Ottoman tragedy', 1618-83 --$t8 .The 'lamentations of Germany' and its Neighbours, 1618-88 --$t9. The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618-89 --$t10. France in Crisis, 1618-88 --$t11.The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to Civil War, 1603-42 --$t12. Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642-89 --$t13. The Mughals and their Neighbours --$t14. Red Flag over Italy --$t15. The 'dark continents': The Americas, Africa and Australia --$t16. Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan --$t17. 'Those who have no means of support': The Parameters of Popular Resistance --$t18. 'People who hope only for a change': Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and the 'dirty people of no name' --$t19. 'People of heterodox beliefs . . . who will join up with anyone who calls them': Disseminating Revolution --$t20. Escaping the Crisis --$t21 .From Warfare State to Welfare State --$t22 .The Great Divergence --$tConclusion: The Crisis Anatomized --$tEpilogue: 'It's the climate, stupid' --$tchronology --$tAcknowledgements --$tConventions --$tSources and Bibliography --$tAbbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aRevolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses-the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the ";General Crisis"; extended from England to Japan, from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. The Americas, too, did not escape the turbulence of the time. In this meticulously researched volume, master historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who saw and suffered from the sequence of political, economic, and social crises between 1618 to the late 1680's. Parker also deploys the scientific evidence of climate change during this period. His discoveries revise entirely our understanding of the General Crisis: changes in prevailing weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world. Parker's demonstration of the link between climate change, war, and catastrophe 350 years ago stands as an extraordinary historical achievement. And the implications of his study are equally important: are we adequately prepared-or even preparing-for the catastrophes that climate change brings? 606 $aHistory, Modern$y17th century 606 $aMilitary history$y17th century 606 $aCivil war$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aRevolutions$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aClimatic changes$xSocial aspects$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aDisasters$xHistory$y17th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHistory, Modern 615 0$aMilitary history 615 0$aCivil war$xHistory 615 0$aRevolutions$xHistory 615 0$aClimatic changes$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aDisasters$xHistory 676 $a909.6 700 $aParker$b Geoffrey$f1933-$0923222 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465571703321 996 $aGlobal crisis$92484612 997 $aUNINA