2nd Edition
The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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One of the most fierce and wide-ranging debates in historical circles during the last twenty years has concerned the theory that throughout Europe, the seventeenth century was a period of crisis so pervasive, significant and intense that it could be labelled a 'General Crisis'. A number of articles stimulated by the debate were collected and published in a book entitled Crisis in Europe , edited... Read more
List of figures, List of tables, Preface, 1 INTRODUCTION, 2 THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRISIS, 3 GERMANY AND THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRISIS, 4 DID HOLLAND’S GOLDEN AGE COINCIDE WITH A PERIOD OF CRISIS?, 5 REVOLUTION AND CONTINUITY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE, 6 THE PRECONDITIONS OF REVOLUTION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: DID THEY REALLY EXIST?, 7 BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES: THE ECONOMIC CRISIS OF 1619–22, 8 THE CRISIS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, 9 A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ‘GENERAL CRISIS’ IN EAST ASIA?, 10 THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRISIS AND THE UNITY OF EURASIAN HISTORY, 11 THE ‘MAUNDER MINIMUM’: SUNSPOTS AND CLIMATE IN THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV, Index
Biography
Geoffrey Parker, Lesley M. Smith
