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

The Crisis of the Aristocracy -- Education and Revolution -- The Contentious Clergy -- 'Dirty People of No Name' -- Justifying Disobedience -- chapter nineteen 'People of Heterodox Beliefs . . . Who Will Join Up with Anyone Who Calls Them': Disseminating Revolution1 -- 'Contagious Diseases' and Composite States -- The Connectors -- Exporting Revolution -- A Public Sphere in the West? -- A Public Sphere in China? -- A Public Sphere Elsewhere? -- The Rule of the Few -- PART V BEYOND THE CRISIS1 -- chapter twenty Escaping the Crisis -- Getting Away From It All -- Keeping Score -- The Psychoactive Revolution -- Peace Breaks Out -- No More Wars -- chapter twenty-one Warfare State or Welfare State? -- The Phoenix Effect -- Be Fruitful and Multiply -- A Second Agricultural Revolution -- The Consumer Revolution -- 'Seeing Like a State' -- The Containment of Disease -- Nourishing the People -- Creative Destruction -- Non-Creative Destruction -- chapter twenty-two The Great Divergence -- Educate and Punish -- The Crisis of the Universities -- The New Learning -- The Thought Police -- Singletons and Multiples -- The Limits of the Scientific Revolution -- Conclusion: The Crisis Anatomized -- Winners and Losers -- In Search of Common Denominators -- If -- The Two Worlds of Robinson Crusoe -- Epilogue: 'It's the Climate, Stupid'1 -- 'Darkness' by Lord Byron36 -- Chronology -- Acknowledgements -- Conventions -- Note on Sources -- Abbreviations Used in the Bibliography and Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index