Global Crisis

Informationen zum Autor The winner of the 2012 Heineken Prize for History! Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History and Associate of the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University. He lives in Columbus! OH. Klappentext Parker's demonstration of the link between climate change and worldwide catastrophe 350 years ago is a major historical achievement, and the contemporary implications of his study are equally important. Zusammenfassung The calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented! they were agonisingly widespread. The author examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political! economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s.

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The winner of the 2012 Heineken Prize for History, Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History and Associate of the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University. He lives in Columbus, OH.

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The calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. The author examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s.