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An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parkers prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamitiesrevoluti
A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Philip II, Spains best-known king "A superbly informed narrative of Philip IIs long career as Europes most powerful king."Henry Kamen, Little Reviews "
This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of m
The publication of The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road in 1972 marked the birth of the 'new military history', which emphasized military organization - mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics - rather than military 'e
How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A master historian uncovers the disturbing answer. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides the calamities of the mid-seventeenth c
Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ruler of the worlds first transatlantic empire Masterly.William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal Seldom does one find a work of