Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Parker, Geoffrey
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Parker, Geoffrey

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A...
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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Parker, Geoffrey

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

$62.88
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Parker, Geoffrey

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

$62.88
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A master historian uncovers the disturbing answer.

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s. Parker also deploys scientific evidence concerning climate conditions of the period, and his use of 'natural' as well as 'human' archives transforms our understanding of the World Crisis. Changes in the prevailing weather patterns during the 1640s and 1650s - longer and harsher winters, and cooler and wetter summers - disrupted growing seasons, causing dearth, malnutrition, and disease, along with more deaths and fewer births. Some contemporaries estimated that one-third of the world died, and much of the surviving historical evidence supports their pessimism.

Parker's demonstration of the link between climate change and worldwide catastrophe 350 years ago stands as an extraordinary historical achievement. And the contemporary implications of his study are equally important: are we at all prepared today for the catastrophes that climate change could bring tomorrow?



Author: Geoffrey Parker
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 10/21/2014
Pages: 904
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.81lbs
Size: 9.77h x 5.44w x 1.91d
ISBN: 9780300208634

About the Author
The winner of the 2012 Heineken Prize for History, Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History and Associate of the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University. He lives in Columbus, OH.
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