Are there any survey books that cover the early modern era from a global perspective?

by 65jthgn

I see a lot of books that cover early modern Europe from about 1500 to 1800, but I would love to find a book that cover it from a world view with bits on China, Mughals, etc.

Itsalrightwithme

If you're interested in the early modern era, you have to first accept that records are really incomplete even in areas that are very well-studied comparatively, such as western and central Europe. If you then want a global view, things are even worse as you are forced to extrapolate in order to gain analysis.

All that said, Geoffrey Parker's "Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century" is quite a good read. However, it depends on your level of knowledge and your willingness to learn.

epicon4

Maybe try Charles H Parker's Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800 (Cambridge 2010) or Subrahmanyam's Explorations in Connected History (2005) or Victor Lieberman's Strange Parallels Volume 2? It depends a bit on what you're looking for; there's a lot of ways to approach the era.