Geoffrey Parker

Bio: Geoffrey Parker is an academic researcher from Ohio State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Empire & Military Revolution. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 108 publications receiving 3120 citations. Previous affiliations of Geoffrey Parker include University of Cambridge & University of Texas at Austin.

The Military revolution: military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800

Abstract: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The military revolution revisited 2. Supplying war 3. Victory at sea 4. The 'military revolution' abroad 5. Beyond the revolution Afterword Notes Bibliographical guide Index.

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Abstract: 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?

The general crisis of the seventeenth century

Abstract: One of the most fierce and wide-ranging debates in historical circles during the last twenty years has concerned the theory that throughout Europe, the seventeenth century was a period of crisis so pervasive, significant and intense that it could be labelled a 'General Crisis'. A number of articles stimulated by the debate were collected and published in a book entitled Crisis in Europe, edited by Trevor Aston. This volume takes the still acrimonious debate up to the present day. The editors have collected together ten important subsequent essays concerning the social, economic and political crises which affected not only Europe but also Asia in the mid-seventeenth century. All the pieces are essential reading for a clear understanding of the period. This new edition of The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century contains fresh research, new perspectives and completely updated bibliographies and index.

Crime and the Law: The Social History of Crime in Western Europe Since 1500

Abstract: The state, the community, and the criminal law in early modern Europe / Bruce Lenman and Geoffrey Parker -- Crimen exceptum / Christina Larner -- Crime and punishment in early modern Spain / Michael Weisser -- Enforcing the law in the seventeenth-century English village / J.A. Sharpe -- The courts and the Scottish legal system, 1600-1747 / Stephen J. Davies -- "A new engine of power and authority" / David Philips -- The London garotting panic of 1862 / Jennifer Davis -- Crime and the security of the state / Robert Tombs -- The decline of theft and violence in Victorian and Edwardian England / V.A.C. Gatrell.

The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800

Abstract: Rather than enjoying a good ebook taking into account a mug of coffee in the afternoon, on the other hand they juggled as soon as some harmful virus inside their computer. the military revolution military innovation and the rise of the west 150

English as a Global Language

Abstract: Preface 1. Why a global language? 2. Why English? The historical context 3. Why English? The cultural foundation 4. Why English? The cultural legacy 5. The future of global English References Index List of tables.

The sources of social power

Abstract: Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early modern Europe It ends by generalizing about the nature of overall social development, the varying forms of social cohesion and the role of classes and class struggle in history First published in 1986, this new edition of Volume 1 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work

War Making and State Making as Organized Crime

Abstract: This chapter claims war makes states, and discusses that mercantile capitalism and state making reinforced each other The reflections that follow merely illustrate analogy of war making and state making with organized crime from few hundred years of European experience and offer tentative arguments concerning principles of change and variation underlying experience War making, extraction, and capital accumulation interacted to shape European state making Apologists for particular governments and for government in general commonly argue, precisely, that they offer protection from local and external violence Government's provision of protection, by this standard, often qualifies as racketeering European states built up their military apparatuses through sustained struggles with their subject populations and by means of selective extension of protection to different classes within those populations The agreements on protection constrained the rulers themselves, making them vulnerable to courts, to assemblies, to withdrawals of credit, services, and expertise

The Anthropocene : A Challenge for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment.

Abstract: In 2000, when atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen and limnologist Eugene F. Stoermer proposed to introduce a new geological era, the Anthropocene, they could not have foreseen the remarkable career of the new term. Within a few years, the geological community began to investigate the scientific evidence for the concept and established the Anthropocene Working Group. While the Working Group has started to examine possible markers and periodizations of the new epoch, scholars from numerous other disciplines have taken up the Anthropocene as a cultural concept. In addition, the media have developed a deep interest in the Anthropocene's broader societal ramifications. The article sheds light on the controversial debate about the Anthropocene and discusses its inextricably linked dual careers, first as a geological term and second as a cultural term. Third, it argues that the debate about the "Age of Humans" is a timely opportunity both to rethink the nature-culture relation and to re-assess the narratives that historians of science, technology, and the environment have written until now. Specifically, it examines both the heuristic and analytical power of the concept. It discusses new histories, new ideas to understand historical change, and new temporalities shaped by scholars who have taken up the challenge of the Anthropocene as a cultural concept that has the ability to question established stories and narratives. Fourth, it ends by stressing the potential of the Anthropocene concept to blur established epistemological boundaries and to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaborations between the sciences and the humanities.

A Global Perspective: Reframing the History of Health, Medicine, and Disease.

Abstract: The emergence of global history has been one of the more notable features of academic history over the past three decades. Although historians of disease were among the pioneers of one of its earlier incarnations—world history—the recent “global turn” has made relatively little impact on histories of health, disease, and medicine. Most continue to be framed by familiar entities such as the colony or nation-state or are confined to particular medical “traditions.” This article aims to show what can be gained from taking a broader perspective. Its purpose is not to replace other ways of seeing or to write a new “grand narrative” but to show how transnational and transimperial approaches are vital to understanding some of the key issues with which historians of health, disease, and medicine are concerned. Moving on from an analysis of earlier periods of integration, the article offers some reflections on our own era of globalization and on the emerging field of global health.