Global crisis
| Titel: | Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century / Geoffrey Parker |
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| Veröffentlicht: | New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2013 |
| Umfang: | XXIX, 871 S., [8] Bl. : Ill., graph. Darst. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780300153231 ; 0300153236 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- List of Illustrations
- p. xi
- Prologue: Did Someone Say 'Climate Change'?
- p. xv
- Introduction: The 'Little Ice Age' and the 'General Crisis'
- p. xxi
- Part I
- The Placenta of the Crisis
- p. 1
- 1
- The Little Ice Age
- p. 3
- 2
- The 'General Crisis'
- p. 26
- 3
- 'Hunger is the greatest enemy': The Heart of the Crisis
- p. 55
- 4
- 'A third of the world has died': Surviving in the Seventeenth Century
- p. 77
- Part II
- Enduring the Crisis
- p. 111
- 5
- The 'Great Enterprise' in China, 1618-84
- p. 115
- 6
- 'The great shaking': Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618-86
- p. 152
- 7
- The 'Ottoman tragedy', 1618-83
- p. 185
- 8
- The 'lamentations of Germany' and its Neighbours, 1618-88
- p. 211
- 9
- The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618-89
- p. 254
- 10
- France in Crisis, 1618-88
- p. 291
- 11
- The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to Civil War, 1603-42
- p. 324
- 12
- Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642-89
- p. 359
- Part III
- Surviving the Crisis
- p. 397
- 13
- The Mughals and their Neighbours
- p. 399
- 14
- Red Flag over Italy
- p. 421
- 15
- The 'dark continents': The Americas, Africa and Australia
- p. 445
- 16
- Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan
- p. 484
- Part IV
- Confronting the Crisis
- p. 507
- 17
- 'Those who have no means of support': The Parameters of Popular Resistance
- p. 509
- 18
- 'People who hope only for a change': Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and 'dirty people of no name'
- p. 534
- 19
- 'People of heterodox beliefs ... who will join up with anyone who calls them': Disseminating Revolution
- p. 561
- Part V
- Beyond the Crisis
- p. 587
- 20
- Escaping the Crisis
- p. 591
- 21
- From Warfare State to Welfare State
- p. 612
- 22
- The Great Divergence
- p. 642
- Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized
- p. 668
- Epilogue: 'It's the climate, stupid'
- p. 686
- Chronology
- p. 698
- Acknowledgements
- p. 705
- Note on Conventions
- p. 709
- Note on Sources and Bibliography
- p. 710
- Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes
- p. 714
- Notes
- p. 718
- Bibliography
- p. 794
- Index
- p. 846
