2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Geoffrey Parker's 2013 monumental study of the global crisis of the 17th century — arguing that climate change (the Little Ice Age), state failure, and warfare combined to produce unprecedented death tolls across Eurasia in the mid-17th century.
Geoffrey Parker's 1988 revision and expansion of Michael Roberts's Military Revolution thesis — arguing that tactical, operational, and strategic changes in the 16th-17th centuries transformed European warfare and created the fiscal-military state.