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

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 rese...