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Subtitle: War, Climate Change &
Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, 2013, 871
pgs., index, notes, graphs, chronology, map
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Reviewer comment:
This is a massive and detailed study based on a huge biblography and extensive
research by Dr. Parker's associates and friends. It is unusual for histories of
early modern times to be world-wide in scope.
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Introduction
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Part I: The Placenta of the Crisis
Chapter 1 The Little Ice Age
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Chapter 2 The General Crisis
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Chapter 3 - "Hunger is the greatest
enemy' - The Heart of the Crisis
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Chapter 4 - "A third of the world has
died' - Surviving in the Seventeenth Century
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Part II: Enduring the Crisis
Chapter 5 - The "Great Enterprise' in China, 1618 - 84
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Capter 6 - "The great Shaking': Russia
and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618-86
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Chapter 7 - The 'Ottoman tragedy', 1618-83
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Chapter 8 - "The Lamentations of
Germany' and its Neighbors, 1618-88
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Chapter 9 - The Agony of the Iberian
Peninsula, 1618 - 42
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Chapter 10 - France in Crisis, 1618-88
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Chapter 11 - The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to
Civil War, 1603-42
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Chapter 12 - Britain and Ireland from Civil
War to Revolution, 1642-89
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Part III Surviving the Crisis
Chapter 13 - The Mugals and their Neighbors
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Chapter 14 - Red Flag over Italy
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Chapter 15 - The 'dark continents': The
Americas, Africa and Australia
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Chapter 16 - Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa
Japan
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Part IV: Confronting the Crisis
Chapter 17 - "Those who have no means of support': The Paramenters of
Popular Resistance
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Chapter 18 - 'People who hop[e only for a
change': Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and 'dirty people of no name'
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Chapter 19 - "People of hetrodox
beliefs': who will join up with anyone who calls them; Disseminating Revolution
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Part V: Beyond the Crisis
Chapter 20 - Escaping the Crisis
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Chapter 21 - From Warfare State to Welfare
State
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Chapter 22 - The Great Divergence
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Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized
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Epilogue: "it's the climate, stupid'
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