CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHES
CONTENTS PART I THE PLACENTA OF THE CRISIS 1 THE LITTLE ICE AGE 2 THE GENERAL CRISIS 3 ‘HUNGER IS THE GREATEST ENEMY’: THE HEART OF THE CRISIS 4 SURVIVING IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 6 THE ‘GREAT SHAKING’: RUSSIA AND THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN PART III SURVIVING THE CRISIS 13 THE MUGHALS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 14 RED FLAG OVER ITALY CONTENTS 15 THE AMERICAS, AFRICA AND AUSTRALIA 16 GETTING IT RIGHT: EARLY TOKUGAWA JAPAN PART IV CONFRONTING THE CRISIS 17 ‘THOSE WHO HAVE NO MEANS OF SUPPORT’: THE PARAMETERS OF POPULAR RESISTANCE 18 ‘PEOPLE WHO HOPE ONLY FOR A CHANGE’: ARISTOCRATS, INTELLECTUALS, CLERICS AND ‘DIRTY PEOPLE OF NO NAME’ 19 ‘PEOPLE OF HETERODOX BELIEFS WHO WILL JOIN UP WITH ANYONE WHO CALLS THEM’: DISSEMINATING REVOLUTION PART V BEYOND THE CRISIS 20 ESCAPING THE CRISIS 21 WARFARE STATE OR WELFARE STATE? 22 THE GREAT DIVERGENCE CONCLUSION: THE CRISIS ANATOMIZED EPILOGUE: ‘IT’S THE CLIMATE, STUPID’