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.
Provides the most comprehensive account of the 17th century as a single global crisis — demonstrating that the English Civil War, the Thirty Years War, the Chinese Ming collapse, the Ottoman troubles, and the Japanese Shimabara rebellion were all expressions of the same climatic, demographic, and political pressures operating globally.
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