Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker

06/12/2022 48h 44min
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker

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Title: Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Narrator: Peter Noble
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 48 hours 44 minutes
Release date: December 6, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: World
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.

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