TY - GEN T1 - Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century A1 - Parker, Geoffrey, 1943- LA - English PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2013 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn837947618 AB - 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, 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 global population died, and much of the surviving historical evidence supports their pessimism. Parker's demonstration of the link between climate change and worldwide catastrophe 350 years ago stands as an extraordinary important historical achievement. The implications of his study for the present day are equally important: are we at all prepared today for the catastrophes that climate change could bring tomorrow? OP - 871 CN - D247 .P37 2013eb SN - 9780300189193 SN - 0300189192 SN - 9781299284227 SN - 1299284221 SN - 9780300153231 SN - 0300153236 KW - History, Modern : 17th century. KW - Military history : 17th century. KW - Civil war : History : 17th century. KW - Revolutions : History : 17th century. KW - Climatic changes : Social aspects : History : 17th century. KW - Disasters : History : 17th century. KW - Military history, Modern : 17th century. KW - Histoire : 17e siècle. KW - Histoire militaire : 17e siècle. KW - Guerre civile : Histoire : 17e siècle. KW - Révolutions : Histoire : 17e siècle. KW - Climat : Changements : Aspect social : Histoire : 17e siècle. KW - Catastrophes : Histoire : 17e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Violence in Society. KW - Civil war KW - Climatic changes : Social aspects KW - Disasters KW - History, Modern KW - Military history KW - Revolutions KW - 1600-1699 KW - History ER -