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22%OFFGeoffrey Parker - Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - Abridged and Revised Edn - 9780300219364 - 9780300219364
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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - Abridged and Revised Edn

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Description for Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - Abridged and Revised Edn Paperback. An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change Num Pages: 672 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JD; HBG; HBLL; RNPG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities-revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides-that befell the mid-seventeenth-century world and wiped out as much as one-third of the global population, and reveals climate change to be the root cause. Examining firsthand accounts of the crises and scrutinizing the prevailing weather patterns during the 1640s and 1650s-longer and harsher winters, and cooler and wetter summers-Parker reveals evidence of disrupted growing seasons causing malnutrition, disease, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300219364
SKU
9780300219364
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About Geoffrey Parker
Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History and associate of the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University, and the 2012 winner of the Heineken Prize for History. He lives in Columbus, OH.

Reviews for Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - Abridged and Revised Edn
Enormous research efforts have gone into the writing of this book, an incisive analysis of historical and climatological events during the seventeenth century. . . This is a fascinating book that every politician and bureaucrat should read to in past mistakes things that must be avoided.
Madra Sivaraman, Environmental Studies Mr. Parker tells [the story] with verve. . ... Read more

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