Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society

Zusammenfassung Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world! their direct experience of widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine; in this volume a team of distinguished economic! social and demographic historians analyses why. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Andrew Appleby: a personal appreciation Peter Laslett; A bibliography of Andrew B. Appleby's principal works in chronological order; List of abbreviations; 1. Famine, disease and crisis mortality in early modern society John Walter and Roger Schofield; 2. The social economy of death in early modern England John Walter; 3. Death in Whickham Keith Wrightson and David Levine; 4. The response to plague in early modern England: public policies and their consequences Paul Slack; 5. Demographic crises and subsistence crises in France 1650-1725 Jacques Dupaquier; 6. Markets and mortality in France, 1600-1789 David R. Weir; 7. Some reflections on corn yields and prices in pre-industrial economies E. A. Wrigley; 8. Family structure, demographic behaviour and economic growth Roger Schofield; Consolidated bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John Walter, John (University of Essex) Schofield Walter, John Schofield Walter
• Assisted by: Roger Schofield (Editor), Roger S. Schofield (Editor), John Walter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.1991
• EAN: 9780521406130
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40613-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Populatio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History