Global Crisis (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
904
Utgivningsdatum
2014-08-15
Förlag
Yale University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
28 colour illustrations + 55 figures
Illustrationer
28 col illus + 55 figs
Dimensioner
248 x 138 x 49 mm
Vikt
1276 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
,
ISBN
9780300208634

Global Crisis

War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

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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. Parkers 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?
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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 crises seemed to engulf every part of the world. What relationship does a changing climate bear to global stability? There could scarcely be a more timely question to ask. Parker deploys a dazzling breadth of scholarship in answering it.Dan Jones, Times (UK) My big book of the year has been Geoffrey Parkers Global Crisis on the disastrous war-torn 17th century. It fills in gaps, gives different perspectivesnot least on Scotland during the Civil Warand opens new areas of history to explore.Catriona Graham, The Guardian In his monumental new book . . . Parkers approach is systematic and painstaking . . . giv[ing] us a rich and emotionally intense sense of how it felt to live through chaotic times.Lisa Jardine, Financial Times Global Crisis is a magnum opus that will remain a touchstone in three areas for at least a generation: the history of the entire globe, the role of climate in history, and the identification of a major historical crisis in the seventeenth century. . . . Wide-ranging, monumental works of history are rare; this is one of them.Theodore K. Rabb, Times Literary Supplement In this vast, superbly researched and utterly engrossing book, Parker shows how climate change pushed the world towards chaos. . . . Parkers book is not merely powerful and convincing, it is a monument to scholarly dedication.Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times [A] staggeringly researched, rivetingly written and intellectually dazzling book. . . . I expect it to be read and debated for decades to come.Sunday Times 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 see in past mistakes things that must be avoided.Madra Sivaraman, Environmental Studies Global Crisis is the production of a scholar . . . who has reflected on what he knows long enough to take on the double task of synthesis and breakthrough. . . . Parker regales the reader with some wild and grim tales, interleaved with thoughtful reflections from those who lived through the crises. A more genial geode to disaster one couldnt hope to find. We shall need more of these in the future.Timothy Brook, Literary Review This monumental work by the distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker . . . is a formidable piece of scholarship that goes beyond its evident grand scale and ambition as a work of synthesis. . . . This book is scholarly and readable, bursting with fully documented examples and authoritative coverage of a vast swathe of 17th-century history, written on a broad canvas but accessible and compelling. It represents a worthy distillation of several decades of Parkers scholarship, and should provide food for thought for academic historians and interested readers alike.Penny Roberts, BBC History Magazine This is indeed a superb and harrowing book, well worth reading for the skill with which Parker summarises the history of pretty well the whole world. . . . A fascinating contribution to history.Christopher Booker, Spectator Its subject is huge, sprawling, all-encompassing and there is an almost reckless ambition about its purpose. It is a big book. It is also a brilliant one, but it requires attention, time and thought. . . . This history is told with a sustained gusto by Parker but . . . it is the contemporary significance of the book that is truly breathtaking.Hugh MacDonald,

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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.