Famine in European History - Tapa blanda

 
9781316631836: Famine in European History
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 1316631834 ISBN 13: 9781316631836
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Sinopsis

This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and Russia, leading scholars compare the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine. The famines they describe differ greatly in size, duration and context; in many cases the damage wrought by poor harvests was confounded by war. The roles of human action, malfunctioning markets and poor relief are a recurring theme. The chapters also take full account of demographic, institutional, economic, social and cultural aspects, providing a wealth of new information which is organized and analyzed within a comparative framework. Famine in European History represents a significant new contribution to demographic history, and will be of interest to all those who want to discover more about famines - truly horrific events which, for centuries, have been a recurring curse for the Europeans.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca de los autores

Guido Alfani is Associate Professor of Economic History at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan. An economic and social historian and an historical demographer, he has published extensively on Early Modern Italy and Europe, specialising in the history of famines and epidemics, in economic inequality, and in social alliance systems. He is the author of Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy: The Grand Tour of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2013) and is currently the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project EINITE, 'Economic Inequality across Italy and Europe 1300–1800.'

Cormac Ó Gráda is Professor Emeritus of Economics at University College Dublin. He was awarded the Royal Irish Academy's gold medal for the humanities in 2009 and is currently president-elect of the Economic History Association. He has published on topics ranging from the European Little Ice Age and London's last plague epidemics to the origins of the Industrial Revolution. Recent works include Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (2006), Famine: A Short History (2009), and Eating People Is Wrong and Other Essays on the History and Future of Famine (2015).

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1316631834
ISBN 13 
9781316631836
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
338
Editor
Alfani Guido
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Alemania

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781107179936: Famine in European History

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1107179939 ISBN 13:  9781107179936
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2017
Tapa dura