Global crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century

List of Illustrations

Prologue: Did Someone Say 'Climate Change'?

Introduction: The 'Little Ice Age' and the 'General Crisis'

Part I. The Placenta of the Crisis

1. The Little Ice Age

2. The 'General Crisis'

3. 'Hunger is the greatest enemy': The Heart of the Crisis

4. 'A third of the world has died': Surviving in the Seventeenth Century

Part II. Enduring the Crisis

5. The 'Great Enterprise' in China, 1618-84

6. 'The great shaking': Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1618-86

7. The 'Ottoman tragedy', 1618-83

8. The 'lamentations of Germany' and its Neighbours, 1618-88

9. The Agony of the Iberian Peninsula, 1618-89

10. France in Crisis, 1618-88

11. The Stuart Monarchy: The Path to Civil War, 1603-42

12. Britain and Ireland from Civil War to Revolution, 1642-89

Part III. Surviving the Crisis

13. The Mughals and their Neighbours

14. Red Flag over Italy

15. The 'dark continents': The Americas, Africa and Australia

16. Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan

Part IV. Confronting the Crisis

17. 'Those who have no means of support': The Parameters of Popular Resistance

18. 'People who hope only for a change': Aristocrats, Intellectuals, Clerics and 'dirty people of no name'

19. 'People of heterodox beliefs … who will join up with anyone who calls them': Disseminating Revolution

Part V. Beyond the Crisis

20. Escaping the Crisis

21. From Warfare State to Welfare State

22. The Great Divergence

Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized

Epilogue: 'It's the climate, stupid'

Chronology

Acknowledgements

Note on Conventions

Note on Sources and Bibliography

Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Index