HIGR 230A: The Seventeenth-Century Crisis (Winter 2012)

Books for purchase at UCSD Bookstore and on Geisel Library Reserve

Geoffrey Parker, Europe in Crisis: 1598-1648 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2d edition, 2001. ISBN-13: 978-0631220282
Stanley Chodorow, Writing a Successful Research Paper: A Simple Approach
Hackett Publishing Co., 2011. ISBN-13: 978-1603844406
Jan Devries, The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750
Cambridge University Press, 1976. ISBN-13: 978-0521290500
Theodore K. Rabb, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe
Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN-13: 978-0195019568
Geoffrey Parker and Lesley M. Smith, eds. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
Routledge, 2d edition, 1997. ISBN-13: 978-0415128827
Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World
University of California Press, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0520082670
William J. Bouwsma, The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640
Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0300097177
Philip Benedict and Myron P. Gutmann, Early Modern Europe: From Crisis to Stability
University of Delaware Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0874139068
Tryntje Helfferich, The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History
Hackett Publishing Co, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0872209398
Eric W. Cochrane, Charles K. Gray, and Mark Kishlansky, eds. University of Chicago Readings
in Western Civilization, Volume 6. Early Modern Europe: Crisis of Authority. University of
Chicago, 1987. ISBN-13: 9780226069487

HIGR 230A: The Seventeenth-Century Crisis

John Marino

Winter 2012
Tu 1:00-3:50 PM H&SS 6008

1) The Seventeenth Century and the Crisis Debate

Geoffrey Parker, Europe in Crisis: 1598-1648 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2d edition, 2001. ISBN-13: 978-0631220282
JSTOR: AHR (October 2008) - Volume 113, Issue 4 : 1029-1099
Introduction - AHR Forum: The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Revisited
Jonathan Dewald, Crisis, Chronology, and the Shape of European Social History
Geoffrey Parker,Crisis&Catastrophe:The Global Crisis of the Seventeenth Century Reconsidered
Michael Marm, Locating Linkages or Painting Bull's-Eyes around Bullet Holes? An East Asian
Perspective on the Seventeenth-Century Crisis
J. B. Shank, Crisis: A Useful Category of PostSocial Scientific Historical Analysis?
Randolph Starn, "Historians and Crisis," Past & Present, 52 (1971), 3-22; Randolph Starn, The
Early Modern Muddle, Journal of Early Modern History 6, no. 3 (2002): 296-307.
Stanley Chodorow, Writing a Successful Research Paper: A Simple Approach
Hackett Publishing Co., 2011. ISBN-13: 978-1603844406
2) The Origins of the Debate and the Seventeenth-Century European Economy
E. J. Hobsbawm, The General Crisis of the European Economy in the 17th Century, Past and
Present 5 (1954): 3353; Hobsbawm, The Crisis of the 17th CenturyII, ibid. 6 (1954): 44
65; H. R. Trevor-Roper, The General Crisis of the 17th Century, ibid. 16 (1959): 3164;
Hobsbawm, Trevor-Roper's General Crisis, Past and Present 18 (1960).
All 4 above reprinted, Trevor Aston, ed., Crisis in Europe, 15601660 (Garden City, N.Y., 1967)
Handout: Lawrence Stone, The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, in Stone, The Past and the
Present (Boston, 1981), 133144.
Jan Devries, The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750
Cambridge University Press, 1976. ISBN-13: 978-0521290500
3) Tuesday, Jan. 24 from 1:00-1:50 Meet in Library Smart Classroom with Sam Dunlap
Tuesday, Jan. 24 from 2:00-3:50 Meet in Geisel Library Special Collections
Finding Stability? Ending the Debate? Broadening the Debate to a World Crisis
Theodore K. Rabb, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe
Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN-13: 978-0195019568
Handout: H. G. Koenigsberger, The Crisis of the 17th Century: A Farewell? in Koenigsberger,
Politicians and Virtuosi: Essays in Early Modern History (London, 1986), 149168
Geoffrey Parker and Lesley M. Smith, eds. The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
Routledge, 2d edition, 1997. ISBN-13: 978-0415128827

4) Politics: Revolt, Rebellion, and Revolution

Jack A. Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World
University of California Press, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0520082670
Handout: Peter Burke, Some Seventeenth-Century Anatomists of Revolution, Storia della
storiografia 22 (1992): 2335.
5) Cultural Crisis and Transformations: Ends and Beginnings
William J. Bouwsma, The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640
Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0300097177
Peter Burke, The Crisis in the Arts of the Seventeenth Century: A Crisis of
Representation? Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 40: 2 (Autumn 2009): 239-261.
6) A Debate without End
Philip Benedict and Myron P. Gutmann, Early Modern Europe: From Crisis to Stability
University of Delaware Press, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0874139068
Jan de Vries, The Economic Crisis of the Seventeenth Century after Fifty Years, Journal of
Interdisciplinary History 40:2 (Autumn 2009): 151-194.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jinh.2009.40.2.151
Handout: Bartolom Yun Casalilla, Spain and the seventeenth-century crisis in Europe: some
final considerations, in The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on
the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain (Past and Present Publications)
by I. A. A. Thompson and Bartolom Yun Casalilla (Cambridge U. Press, 2009), pp. 301-321.
Handout: Paolo Malanima, A Declining Economy: Central and Northern Italy in the Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Centuries, in Thomas J. Dandelet and John Marino, eds., Spain in Italy:
Politics, Society, and Religion 1500-1700 (Brill, 2006): 383-404.
7) Reading Documents: The Thirty Years War
Tryntje Helfferich, The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History
Hackett Publishing Co, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0872209398
8) Reading Documents: The English Civil War and the Scientific Revolution
Eric W. Cochrane, Charles K. Gray, and Mark Kishlansky, eds. University of Chicago Readings
in Western Civilization, Volume 6. Early Modern Europe: Crisis of Authority. University of
Chicago, 1987. ISBN-13: 9780226069487
9) Student Presentations
10) Student Presentations
11th week: NO CLASS MEETING. 10-page interim report on your seminar paper (topic,
problem, sources) due in my mailbox on Tuesday of finals week.
Updated bibliography is in Philip Benedict and Myron P. Gutmann, Early Modern Europe: From
Crisis to Stability (University of Delaware Press, 2006), pp. 278-305.

Students
padamiak@ucsd.edu; abrivio@ucsd.edu; fchamber@ucsd.edu; xic029@ucsd.edu;
efalk@ucsd.edu; didol@ucsd.edu; alackner@ucsd.edu; slandle@ucsd.edu; lmylonak@ucsd.edu;
aocubill@ucsd.edu; jpalhegy@ucsd.edu; dstraszh@ucsd.edu; btasyaka@ucsd.edu
Adamiak, Patrick John
Brivio, Alessandra
Chamberlin, Foster Pease
Chen, Xiao
xic029@ucsd.edu
Falk, Edward Allaire
Idol, David
didol@ucsd.edu
Lackner, Audrey Marie
Landle, Sarah Anne
Mylonakis, Leonidas
Ocubillo, Annabel Lee
Palhegyi, Joel jpalhegy@ucsd.edu
Straszheim, David Reid
Tasyakan, Baris

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abrivio@ucsd.edu
fchamber@ucsd.edu
efalk@ucsd.edu
alackner@ucsd.edu
slandle@ucsd.edu
lmylonak@ucsd.edu
aocubill@ucsd.edu
dstraszh@ucsd.edu
btasyaka@ucsd.edu