Crises in Economic and Social History (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Perspective
Redaktion: Brown, A. T.; Doherty, Rob; Burn, Andy

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Produktbeschreibung

Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first.

This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fields of research. This volume breaks down the boundaries between traditional historical time periods and sub-disciplines of history to examine the ways in which past societies have coped with crises, and the role of crisis in generating economic and social change.
Should we conceptualise a medieval agrarian or financial crisis differently from their modern counterparts? Were there similarities in how contemporaries responded to famine or outbreaks of disease? How comparable are crises within households, within institutions, or across national and international networks of trade? Contributors examine how crises have shaped economic and social life in a range of studies from the Great Depression in 1930s Latin America to the outbreak of plague in seventeenth-century central Europe, and from sheep and cattle murrain in fourteenth-century England to the Northern Rock building society collapse of 2007.

A.T. BROWN is an Addison Wheeler Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Durham University.

ANDY BURN is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University.

ROB DOHERTY is a doctoral candidate in history at DurhamUniversity.

CONTRIBUTORS: Peter H. Bent, A.T. Brown, Andy Burn, Catherine Casson, Mark Casson, Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Rob Doherty, Josette Duncan, Matthew Hollow, Pavla Jirková, Alan Knight, John S. Lee, Cinzia Lorandini,John Martin, Ranald Michie, Anne L. Murphy, Pamela Nightingale, John Singleton, Philip Slavin, Paul Warde

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cokesbury
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782046592
• Artikelnr.: 56407099

Autorenporträt

A.T. Brown, Andy Burn, Rob Doherty

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Coping with Crisis: Understanding the Role of Crises in
Economic and Social History - A.T. Brown Introduction: Coping with Crisis:
Understanding the Role of Crises in Economic and Social History - Andy Burn
Introduction: Coping with Crisis: Understanding the Role of Crises in
Economic and Social History - Rob Doherty 'Crisis' and the Great Depression
in Latin America - Alan Knight Using the Disaster Cycle in Economic and
Social History - John Singleton Economic Crises in England, 1270-1520: A
Statistical Approach - Mark Casson and Catherine Casson Flogging a Dead
Cow: Coping with Animal Panzootic on the Eve of the Black Death - Philip
Slavin Early Modern 'Resource Crisis': the Wood Shortage Debates in Europe
- Paul Warde The International Crisis of 1972-7: the Neglected Agrarian
Dimension - John Martin Coping with Epidemic Crises, from Antiquity to the
Present - Samuel K. Cohn Plague Year 1680 in Central Europe: Using Czech
Plague Registers to Monitor Epidemic - Pavla Jirkova 'Two Words...GOOD
SANITATION': Colonial Medical Responses to the Cholera Epidemics of 1865
and 1888 in Malta - Josette Duncan The Impact of Crises on Credit in the
Late Medieval English Economy - Pamela Nightingale Dealing with the Threat
of Reform: the Bank of England in the 1780s - Anne L. Murphy Bursting the
Bubble: The 2007 Northern Rock Crisis in Historical Perspective - Matthew
Hollow and Ranald C Michie Crises in the Late Medieval English Cloth Trade
- John S. Lee The Roots of Decline: The Tyrolean Silk Industry and the
Crises of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century - Cinzia Lorandini The
Stabilising Effects of the Dingley Tariff and the Recovery from the 1890s
Depression in the United States - Peter H. Bent