Global crisis war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century
"Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonizingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America,...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2013]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34691686*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : Did someone say 'climate change'?
- Introduction : The 'Little ice age' and the 'General crisis'
- pt. I: The placenta of the crisis : The little ice age ; The 'General crisis' ; 'Hunger is the greatest enemy': the heart of the crisis ; 'A third of the world has died' : surviving in the seventeenth century
- pt. II: Enduring the crisis : The 'great enterprise' in China, 1618-84 ; 'The great shaking' : Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, 1618-86 ; The 'Ottoman tragedy', 1618-83 ; The 'lamentations of Germany' and its neighbours, 1618-88 ; The agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618-89 ; France in crisis, 1618-88 ; The Stuart monarchy : the path to Civil War, 1603-42 ; Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642-89
- pt. III: Surviving the crisis : The Mughals and their neighbours ; Red flag over Italy ; The 'dark continents' : the Americas, Africa and Australia ; Getting it right: Early Tokugawa Japan
- pt. IV: Confronting the crisis : 'Those who have no means of support' : the parameters of popular resistance ; 'People who hope only for a change' : aristocrats, intellectuals, clerics and 'dirty people of no name' ; 'People of heterodox beliefs ... who will join up with anyone who calls them' : disseminating revolution.
- pt. V: Beyond the crisis : Escaping the crisis ; From warfare state to welfare state ; The great divergence
- Conclusion: The crisis anatomized
- Epilogue: 'It's the climate, stupid.'
