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John Walter, Roger Schofield - Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society

Av John Walter, Roger Schofield

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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. Focusing on England (whose experience is contrasted with France), the contributions combine detailed local studies of individual communities, broader analyses of the impact of hunger and disease, and methodological discussion to explore the effects of crisis mortality on early modern societies.
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'Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society, a worthy tribute to the late Andrew B. Appleby is to be welcomed for its staunch determination to set historical demography in the thick of a total history, one in which the study of populations, nutrition and human biology is mediated through the practices and ideologies of society at large. In what is an unusually integrated collection of essays - all eight authors address a tight repertoire of issues - the role of human agency, responding to pressures and prospects, is constantly raised.' Roy Porter, The Times Literary Supplement

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