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Global crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth centuryByGeoffrey Parker. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. xxxii + 871. 28 colour illustrations, 55 figures. Hardback £29.99, ISBN978-0-300-15323-1; paperback £16.99, ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

R. Bin Wong
R. Bin Wong*
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UCLA, USA E-mail: rbwong@international.ucla.edu
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Journal of Global History , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2016 , pp. 135 - 146
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1 Bin Wong, R., China transformed: historical change and the limits of European experience, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997, pp. 127–152Google Scholar.