General Crisis of the 17th Century Author:Geoffrey Parker, Lesley M. Smith This updated volume takes the still acrimonious debate over the "General Crisis" of the seventeenth century up to today. Geoffrey Parker and Lesley Smith have collected ten important subsequent essays concerning the social, economic and political crises which affected Europe and Asia in the mid-seventeenth century. This new edition of The Genera... more »l Crisis of the Seventeenth Century contains fresh research, new perspectives and completely updated bibliographies and index.« less