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24%OFFGeoffrey Parker - Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - 9780300208634 - V9780300208634
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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

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Description for Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century Paperback. The calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. The author 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. Num Pages: 904 pages, 28 col illus + 55 figs. BIC Classification: HBG; RBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1236.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1241g
Number of Pages
904
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300208634
SKU
V9780300208634
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99-50

About Geoffrey Parker
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.

Reviews for Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
“Mr. Parker tells [the story] with verve. . . . [His] novel interpretation, emphasizing climate instead of individual agency, helps to explain socio-economic change and revolution in ways that future historians will inevitably have to take into account.”—Wall Street Journal “The author sets out to examine a century in which weather patterns radically altered and political, social and economic ... Read more

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