You might try the Cambridge Histories first. They're too expensive for personal use, I would say, but they have the New Cambridge Modern History and they recently released a Cambridge World History that is more thematic in scope. If your public library doesn't have them, just hit up a local university library. If they have digital access to them, you can download chapters on campus with a guest log in and email them to yourself. I bring this up because you want to learn as much as possible.

The key suggestion I would make in using these is to look in the bibliography spend just as much time in the biblio as skimming the text. This is a research tip that I think too many undergraduates don't realize is the best way to do research. It becomes a huge web of sources for you to explore. You won't need to come to askhistorians askng scattershot questions, you'll be able to do it for yourself :).

There is Geoffrey Parker's Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century which covers these years. As Yale's publisher's blurb states:

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s. Parker also deploys scientific evidence concerning climate conditions of the period, and his use of ‘natural’ as well as ‘human’ archives transforms our understanding of the World Crisis. Changes in the prevailing weather patterns during the 1640s and 1650s – longer and harsher winters, and cooler and wetter summers – disrupted growing seasons, causing dearth, malnutrition, and disease, along with more deaths and fewer births. Some contemporaries estimated that one-third of the world died, and much of the surviving historical evidence supports their pessimism.