Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century /

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Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonizingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parker, Geoffrey, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Temas:
1600-1699
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.
Military history, Modern > 17th century.
Histoire > 17e siècle.
Histoire militaire > 17e siècle.
Guerre civile > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Révolutions > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Climat > Changements > Aspect social > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Catastrophes > Histoire > 17e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Civil war
Climatic changes > Social aspects
Disasters
History, Modern
Military history
Revolutions
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue : Did someone say 'climate change'?
  • Introduction : The 'Little ice age' and the 'General crisis'
  • pt. I: The placenta of the crisis : The little ice age ; The 'General crisis' ; 'Hunger is the greatest enemy': the heart of the crisis ; 'A third of the world has died' : surviving in the seventeenth century
  • pt. 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 ; The 'lamentations of 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
  • pt. III: Surviving the crisis : The Mughals and their neighbours ; Red flag over Italy ; The 'dark continents' : the Americas, Africa and Australia ; Getting it right: Early Tokugawa Japan
  • pt. 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' ; 'People of heterodox beliefs ... who will join up with anyone who calls them' : disseminating revolution.
  • pt. V: Beyond the crisis : Escaping the crisis ; From warfare state to welfare state ; The great divergence
  • Conclusion: The crisis anatomized
  • Epilogue: 'It's the climate, stupid.'

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