Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and CatastGeoffrey Parker
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and CatastGeoffrey Parker How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A global crisis extended from…
Specifikacia Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and CatastGeoffrey Parker
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and CatastGeoffrey Parker
How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. 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.
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. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. Parker also deploys scientific evidence concerning climate conditions of the period, and his use of 'natural' as well as 'human' archives transforms our