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  • Global Crisis

  • War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
  • Written by: Geoffrey Parker
  • Narrated by: Peter Noble
  • Length: 48 hrs and 44 mins

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Global Crisis

Written by: Geoffrey Parker
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Publisher's Summary

The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-seventeenth century.

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis.

Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.

©2013 Geoffrey Parker (P)2022 Tantor

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