The Crisis of the 17th Century:Geoffrey Parker's Cursed Century

Although the chronological framework of the work that we are going to review is outside what is conventionally called Contemporary History and, therefore, would not have a place in a blog dedicated to this period, the importance of the work in question makes its review necessary.
We refer to the latest publication by the British historian Geoffrey Parker entitled The Cursed Century. The work refers to the crisis of the 17th century, a systemic crisis that affected numerous regions of the northern hemisphere and the author relates it to the stage of climatic cooling known as The Little Ice Age.
We present below the synthesis of the work carried out by the publisher:Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars; the unprecedented calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were a terribly widespread phenomenon. The crisis spread from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America also suffered turmoil. Nobody until now had been able to explain the reason for so much catastrophe at the same time in the entire world. Parker has shown that there is a link between climate change and the catastrophes that occurred in the world 350 years ago, which is a historical achievement of extraordinary scope. And the implications that your study will have are equally important:are we prepared for the catastrophes that climate change could bring tomorrow?


In the next podscat you can listen to an interview with author in the RNE program The story of each day from 12/08/2013.

http://www.ivoox.com/player_ej_2624701_1.html

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