Geoffrey Parker,Global Crisis:War,Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century,New Haven:Yale University Press, 2013,904 pp.“17世纪的普遍性危机”(General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century)是晚近几十年的一个重要历史建构。早在1954年,已故英国马克思主义史学家霍布斯鲍姆(E.J.Hobsbawm)便在《过去与现在》这本史学刊物上发表了《17世纪欧洲经济的普遍性危机》一文。该文以马克思主义为取径,将17世纪欧洲社会的总体危机的肇因归结为生产力危机,极大地刺激了当 Geoffrey Parker, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013, 044 pp. “General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century” Ten years of an important historical construction. As early as 1954, the late British Marxist historian E.J.obsbawm published an article entitled “The Universality of the European Economy in the 17th Century” in his “History of the past and present”. Taking Marxism as a guide, the article attributed the root cause of the general crisis of European society in the seventeenth century to the crisis of productive forces, which greatly stimulated