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Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Book • 2020
This book by Geoffrey Parker examines the 'General Crisis' of the 17th century, a period marked by revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides that affected regions from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.
Parker uses firsthand accounts and scientific evidence to demonstrate the impact of climate change, particularly the 'Little Ice Age', on global societies.
The changes in weather patterns, such as longer winters and cooler, wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons, leading to crop failures, famine, malnutrition, disease, and increased mortality.
The book highlights how these environmental factors contributed to social unrest, wars, and revolutions, and discusses the contemporary implications of these historical events in the context of modern climate change.
Parker uses firsthand accounts and scientific evidence to demonstrate the impact of climate change, particularly the 'Little Ice Age', on global societies.
The changes in weather patterns, such as longer winters and cooler, wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons, leading to crop failures, famine, malnutrition, disease, and increased mortality.
The book highlights how these environmental factors contributed to social unrest, wars, and revolutions, and discusses the contemporary implications of these historical events in the context of modern climate change.
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Tom Holland as a book that puts Britain's experience of civil war and pandemic against the backdrop of climate change.
Tom Holland as a book that puts Britain's experience of civil war and pandemic against the backdrop of climate change.
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4. We’re all so 17th Century
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Dominic Sandbrook as a brilliant example of global history, linking the Little Ice Age to famines, religious wars, and political turbulence.
Dominic Sandbrook as a brilliant example of global history, linking the Little Ice Age to famines, religious wars, and political turbulence.
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313: Climate Apocalypse
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Dan Snow while discussing the 17th-century climate catastrophe and its relation to the Great Fire of London.
Dan Snow while discussing the 17th-century climate catastrophe and its relation to the Great Fire of London.
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The Great Fire of London
