Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s. Parker also deploys scientific evidence concerning climate conditions of the period, and his use of ‘natural’ as well as ‘human’ archives transforms our understanding of the World Crisis. Changes in the prevailing weather patterns during the 1640s and 1650s – longer and harsher winters, and cooler and wetter summers – disrupted growing seasons, causing dearth, malnutrition, and disease, along with more deaths and fewer births. Some contemporaries estimated that one-third of the world died, and much of the surviving historical evidence supports their pessimism.
Parker’s demonstration of the link between climate change and worldwide catastrophe 350 years ago stands as an extraordinary historical achievement. And the contemporary implications of his study are equally important: are we at all prepared today for the catastrophes that climate change could bring tomorrow?
Winner of the 2012 Heineken Prize for History, Geoffrey Parker is a renowned British historian who taught at the University of St Andrews, the University of Illinois, the University of British Columbia and Yale University before becoming Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy, the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Spanish-American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cadiz), and the Royal Academy of History (Madrid). His many books include The Grand Strategy of Philip II, published by Yale in 1998 (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize) and The Military Revolution (winner of the best book prize of the American Military Institute and the Society for the History of Technology), as well as seminal works on global military history and early modern Europe.
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评分**第四段评价** 我通常不太喜欢那种过于宏大叙事的作品,总觉得容易写空,但这部作品的独特之处在于,它成功地将全球性的灾难与极其微观的个人情感纠缠在了一起。书中几位主要人物的命运线索,看似独立,却又在关键时刻以一种近乎宿命的方式汇集。我特别欣赏作者对“选择”这一主题的处理,在看似没有出路的环境里,每一次微小的决定都可能牵动成千上万的生命,这种沉重的责任感被刻画得入木三分。我甚至在某个深夜,合上书本,想象着如果我是书中某位角色,我的选择会是什么。这种强烈的代入感和反思的深度,是很多流水线作品无法比拟的。它不只是一个故事,更像是一场关于生存哲学的辩论赛,而我们读者,就是最后的裁判。
评分**第三段评价** 老实说,这本书的阅读体验非常“耗费心神”,但绝对物超所值。它的节奏变化是教科书级别的,时而缓慢得如同凝固的琥珀,细致描摹着环境的衰败与人心的腐朽;时而又骤然加速,如同失控的列车,将读者卷入一场场白热化的对决。我得承认,有那么几段情节我需要反复阅读才能完全理解其中的隐喻和铺垫,这要求读者必须保持高度的专注力。但正是这种挑战性,让最终的顿悟时刻显得格外震撼。作者对环境氛围的营造简直是一绝,那种无声的压迫感、弥漫在空气中的硫磺味和绝望气息,似乎能透过纸张渗透出来。对于那些寻求真正深刻、需要动脑筋去品味的文学作品的读者来说,这本书绝对是近几年来难得一见的佳作。
评分**第二段评价** 如果说文学作品是思想的载体,那么这本书无疑是一块沉甸甸的基石。我很少看到有哪部作品能如此深刻地探讨权力、伦理与人性在极端压力下的脆弱性。作者显然是做了非常深入的案头工作,书中的许多理论推导和基于现实背景的虚构场景,都显得无比真实可信,让人在阅读时不得不停下来深思——如果这一切真的发生了,我们该如何自处?不同于那些只注重情节刺激的灾难小说,这本书的格局要大得多,它更像是一面映照我们当代社会诸多隐疾的镜子。它没有提供廉价的答案或英雄主义的幻想,相反,它逼迫我们直视那些难以启齿的真相。我看完后,久久不能平静,它激发了我对未来和我们所处环境的全新审视,是一种智力上和情感上的双重洗礼。
评分**第一段评价** 这本书简直是一场精神上的过山车,读完之后我感觉需要好几天才能回过神来。作者的叙事手法极其大胆,他并没有试图给我们一个清晰的、线性的剧情发展,反而更像是在编织一张错综复杂的网。每一次翻页,都像是在进入一个全新的维度,充满了意想不到的转折和令人窒息的张力。尤其让我印象深刻的是他对人物内心世界的刻画,那种深植于骨髓的恐惧、绝望以及在黑暗中挣扎出的微弱希望,都描绘得淋漓尽致,仿佛我就是那个身处绝境的主角。这本书的文字本身就带着一种魔力,它能轻易地将读者从现实中抽离,投入到那个光怪陆离、危机四伏的世界里。我特别喜欢作者处理冲突的方式,既有宏大叙事下的世界末日感,又不乏个体命运的细腻悲歌,两者交织在一起,产生了强烈的化学反应,让人欲罢不能。
评分#我正在翻译这本书,很快就会杀青,希望中译本早日同大家见面。
评分书太厚,课上只能分着读。正好被分配了中国的一章,看完简直是大写的失望。#唬人的世界史家
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评分书太厚,课上只能分着读。正好被分配了中国的一章,看完简直是大写的失望。#唬人的世界史家
评分#我正在翻译这本书,很快就会杀青,希望中译本早日同大家见面。
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