Global Crisis War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Revolutions, 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 t...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
30.04.2013
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- Front Matter Table of Contents List of Illustrations Plates Prologue: Introduction: [PART I. Introduction] 1: The Little Ice Age 2: The ‘General Crisis’ 3: ‘Hunger is the greatest enemy’: 4: ‘A third of the world has died’: [PART II. Introduction] 5: The ‘Great Enterprise’ in China, 1618–84 6: ‘The great shaking’: 7: The ‘Ottoman tragedy’, 1618–83 8: The ‘lamentations of Germany’ and its Neighbours, 1618–88 9: The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618–89 10: France in Crisis, 1618–88 11: The Stuart Monarchy: 12: Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642–89 [PART III. Introduction] 13: The Mughals and their Neighbours 14: Red Flag over Italy 15: The ‘dark continents’: 16: Getting it Right: [PART IV. Introduction] 17: ‘Those who have no means of support’: 18: ‘People who hope only for a change’: 19: ‘People of heterodox beliefs … who will join up with anyone who calls them’: [PART V. Introduction] 20: Escaping the Crisis 21: From Warfare State to Welfare State 22: The Great Divergence Conclusion: Epilogue: Chronology Acknowledgements Note on Conventions Note on Sources and Bibliography Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes Notes Bibliography Index
- 9780300153231 -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- Introduction: The 'Little Ice Age' and the 'General Crisis' -- PART I -- 1 The Little Ice Age1 -- 2 The 'General Crisis' -- 3 'Hunger is the greatest enemy': The Heart of the Crisis -- 4 'A third of the world has died': Surviving in the Seventeenth Century1 -- PART II -- 5 The 'Great Enterprise' in China, 1618-84 -- 6 'The great shaking': Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618-86 -- 7 The 'Ottoman tragedy', 1618-83 -- 8 The 'lamentations of Germany' and its Neighbours, 1618-88 -- 9 The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618-89 -- 10 France in Crisis, 1618-88 -- 11 The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to Civil War, 1603-42 -- 12 Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642-89 -- PART III -- 13 The Mughals and their Neighbours -- 14 Red Flag over Italy -- 15 The 'dark continents': The Americas, Africa and Australia -- 16 Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan1 -- PART IV -- 17 'Those who have no means of support': The Parameters of Popular Resistance -- 18 'People who hope only for a change': Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and the 'dirty people of no name' -- 19 'People of heterodox beliefs . . . who will join up with anyone who calls them': Disseminating Revolution -- PART V -- 20 Escaping the Crisis -- 21 From Warfare State to Welfare State -- 22 The Great Divergence -- Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized -- Epilogue: 'It's the climate, stupid' -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- Sources and Bibliography -- Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index