Название: The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
Автор: Edited by Geoffrey Parker, Lesley M. Smith
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 325
Размер: 14.8 Мб
Язык: English
Several theses discussing the much debated cause of the crisis of the 17th Century and whether it actually existed. Views ranging from solely economic attributes to lack of governmental flexibility to change with the times is argued as the sole reasons for the crisis. Some center completely on Europe, showing their ethnocentrism, while other acknowledge the existence and contribution of the growing South-East Asian colonies. As a whole, most if not all the possible contributing factors are presented at one point or the other. This compilation is often used in graduate courses to stimulate discussion on the topic.
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
FIGURES......Page 8
TABLES......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 11
I HISTORIANS AND THE ‘GENERAL CRISIS’......Page 12
II AN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CRISIS......Page 18
III A POLITICAL CRISIS......Page 24
IV AN INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY?......Page 28
V A GLOBAL CRISIS?......Page 30
NOTES......Page 33
2 THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRISIS......Page 43
I THE ECONOMIC CRISIS......Page 44
Population......Page 45
Agriculture......Page 46
Industry......Page 47
International trade......Page 50
The public sector......Page 51
The economic crisis......Page 54
II THE POLITICAL CRISIS......Page 56
III THE PROBLEM OF ABSOLUTISM......Page 57
IV CONCLUSION......Page 60
NOTES......Page 61
II THE GENERAL CRISIS DEBATE......Page 68
Germany and the economic theories......Page 71
Germany and the political theories......Page 75
Germany and the sceptics......Page 76
IV A ‘CRISIS OF DISTRIBUTION’......Page 77
V THE GERMAN CRISIS AND ITS INTERNATIONAL OUTCOME......Page 83
The German popular revolts......Page 84
The German civil war......Page 85
NOTES......Page 87
4 DID HOLLAND’S GOLDEN AGE COINCIDE WITH A PERIOD OF CRISIS?......Page 99
NOTES......Page 116
5 REVOLUTION AND CONTINUITY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE......Page 120
NOTES......Page 136
6 THE PRECONDITIONS OF REVOLUTION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE......Page 139
NOTES......Page 158
7 BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES......Page 164
Trade......Page 166
Industry......Page 179
Agriculture......Page 189
Summary......Page 197
II THE INTERNAL MECHANISM OF THE CRISIS......Page 198
POSTSCRIPT (1996)......Page 207
NOTES......Page 208
8 THE CRISIS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA......Page 218
TRADE DECLINE......Page 219
CLIMATE......Page 223
RETREAT FROM THE WORLD ECONOMY......Page 229
RESPONSES TO THE LOSS OF TRADE REVENUE......Page 235
NOTES......Page 241
9 A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ‘GENERAL CRISIS’ IN EAST ASIA......Page 247
NOTES......Page 259
10 THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRISIS AND THE UNITY OF EURASIAN HISTORY......Page 268
CONCLUSION......Page 274
NOTES......Page 275
THE SUNSPOT CYCLE......Page 277
A BRIEF HISTORY......Page 278
THE ‘PROLONGED SUNSPOT MINIMUM’......Page 280
QUESTIONS......Page 281
SOLAR OBSERVATIONS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY......Page 282
AURORAE......Page 285
SUNSPOTS SEEN WITH THE NAKED EYE......Page 288
CARBON-14 AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUN......Page 291
ABSENCE OF THE CORONA AT ECLIPSE......Page 294
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 298
APPENDIX: SUNSPOT NUMBERS......Page 301
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 303
NOTES......Page 304
INDEX......Page 312
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