An Analysis of Geoffrey Parker's Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781912128082 / Miękka / 2017 / 106 str.

Ian Jackson

Opis

Geoffrey Parker spent 15 years writing this ambitious history of the tumultuous 17th century, a period in the grip of what historians term the General Crisis (2013).

Spis treści

Ways in to the Text  Who is Geoffrey Parker?  What does Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century Say?  Why does Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century Matter?  Section 1: Influences  Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context  Module 2: Academic Context  Module 3: The Problem  Module 4: The Author's Contribution  Section 2: Ideas  Module 5: Main Ideas  Module 6: Secondary Ideas  Module 7: Achievement  Module 8: Place in the Author's Work  Section 3: Impact  Module 9: The First Responses  Module 10: The Evolving Debate  Module 11: Impact and Influence Today  Module 12: Where Next?  Glossary of Terms  People Mentioned in the Text  Works Cited

O autorze

Ian Jackson is a PhD student in the Politics, Philosophy and Religion Department at Lancaster University. He is interested in the role new media plays in the dissemination of ideas.