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Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century is a major work of history that examines the worldwide upheavals of the mid-seventeenth century. It belongs to early modern, global, and environmental history, and it argues that many of the era’s revolutions, famines, invasions, civil wars, and state breakdowns were connected by a larger climatic shock. Parker’s central concern is not simply to list disasters, but to explain why so many regions experienced crisis at roughly the same time. He combines political narrative with climate evidence to show how colder winters, wetter summers, failed harvests, hunger, disease, and instability reinforced one another across continents. The book is especially notable for linking human events to the Little Ice Age and for treating climate as a historical force with social and political consequences. It is both a reconstruction of seventeenth-century catastrophe and a cautionary study of how environmental stress can magnify human vulnerability.