Famine in European History

ISBN-13: 9781316631836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 336 str.

Guido Alfani; Cormac O. Grada

Opis

The first systematic study of famines in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present.

Recenzje

'This impressive volume presents a series of quantitatively rich historical studies by leading scholars that together offer a broad picture of famine in Europe - scale, context, and cause and effect - from medieval times onward.' Geoffrey McNicoll, Population and Development Review

Spis treści

1. Famines in Europe: an overview Guido Alfani and Cormac Ó Gráda; 2. Italy Guido Alfani, Donatella Strangio and Luca Mocarelli; 3. Spain Vicente Perez Moreda; 4. France Gerard Béaur and Jean-Michel Chevet; 5. Germany, Switzerland and Austria Dominik Collet and Daniel Krämer; 6. Low Countries Daniel Curtis, Jessica Dijkman, Thijs Lambrecht and Eric Vanhaute; 7. Britain Richard Hoyle; 8. Ireland Cormac Ó Gráda; 9. Nordic Europe Martin Dribe, Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson; 10. Eastern Europe (Russia and the USSR) Stephen Wheatcroft; 11. The European famines of World War I and II Stephen Wheatcroft and Cormac Ó Gráda.