Global Crisis by Parker, Geoffrey -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half Title Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Plates 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

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

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