An Analysis of Carlo Ginzburg's The Night Battles - Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Goldstone examines the causes of revolutions and uprisings between 1500 and 1800 in both Europe and Asia. Many thinkers previously believed that Europe's distinctive history-particularly the rise of capitalism-had created the revolutions that launched its path to global supremacy.