Crisis and Catastrophe

The Global Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Reconsidered

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ID5832083
AutoresGeoffrey Parker (autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume113
Fascículo4
Páginas1053-1079
Data de publicação2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/ahr.113.4.1053
OpenAlexW2137957012
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas30

around the globe than any previous or subsequent age: something historians have called General Crisis. In the 1640s, Ming China, the most populous state in the world, collapsed; the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the largest state in Europe, disintegrated; much of the Spanish monarchy, the first global empire in history, seceded; and the entire Stuart monarchy rebelled-Scotland, Ireland, England, and its American colonies. In addition, just in the year 1648, a tide of urban rebellions began in Russia (the largest state in the world), and the Fronde Revolt paralyzed France (the most populous state in Europe); meanwhile, in Istanbul (Europe's largest city), irate subjects strangled Sultan Ibrahim, and in London, King Charles I went on trial for war crimes (the first head of state to do so). In the 1650s, Sweden and Denmark came close to revolution; Scotland and Ireland disappeared as autonomous states; the Dutch Republic radically changed its form of government; and the Mughal Empire, then the richest state in the world, experienced two years of civil war following the arrest, deposition, and imprisonment of its ruler.1 The frequency of popular revolts around the world also peaked during the midseventeenth century. In China, the number of major armed uprisings rose from under ten in the 1610s to more than seventy in the 1620s and more than eighty in the 1630s, affecting 160 counties and involving well over 1 million people.2 In Japan, some forty

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