All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: earthquakes, plague, warfare, soil erosion and subsistence crises. However, while some settlements were stable over the long term, other settlements proved more vulnerable to crisis. This book has been stimulated by the hypotheses put forward by a recent 'disaster studies' literature, which suggests that vulnerability of habitation is less to do with the crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses. By testing the explanatory framework on several societies between the Middle Ages and nineteenth-century Europe, it is argued…mehr
All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: earthquakes, plague, warfare, soil erosion and subsistence crises. However, while some settlements were stable over the long term, other settlements proved more vulnerable to crisis. This book has been stimulated by the hypotheses put forward by a recent 'disaster studies' literature, which suggests that vulnerability of habitation is less to do with the crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses. By testing the explanatory framework on several societies between the Middle Ages and nineteenth-century Europe, it is argued that the most resilient habitations were those that displayed an equitable distribution of property and power.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel R. Curtis is currently working at Utrecht University at the Research Institute for History and Art History, and is employed on a European Research Council-funded project entitled 'Coordinating for Life. Success and Failure of Western European Societies in Coping with Rural Hazards and Disasters, 1300-1800' led by Professor Bas van Bavel. He has published articles in a variety of journals such as Continuity and Change, Journal of Medieval History, and Journal of Historical Geography, on an assortment of themes including rural resilience and vulnerability to shocks and stress, settlement development, land consolidation and inequality, the relationship between city and countryside, and common-pool resources.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Defining Settlement 'Resilience' and 'Vulnerability' and Introducing the Historiography; 2: The Theoretical Framework; 3: Parasite or Stimulant? The Divergent Impact of the City of Florence upon its Surrounding Rural Hinterlands, 1300-1580; 4: Settlement Decline before the Black Death? Dealing with Pressure on Resources in Two Regions of Medieval Cambridgeshire, 1200-1340; 5: Village Communities and Commercialisation; 6: A North Sea Coastal Area Under Pressure of Land Consolidation. Transition from a Farmers' Republic to an Unequal Polder Society in the Oldambt of Groningen, 1700-1900; 7: Exploring Long-Term Inequality and Agro-Towns in the Kingdom of Naples, 1600-1900; 8: Conclusion
1: Defining Settlement 'Resilience' and 'Vulnerability' and Introducing the Historiography; 2: The Theoretical Framework; 3: Parasite or Stimulant? The Divergent Impact of the City of Florence upon its Surrounding Rural Hinterlands, 1300-1580; 4: Settlement Decline before the Black Death? Dealing with Pressure on Resources in Two Regions of Medieval Cambridgeshire, 1200-1340; 5: Village Communities and Commercialisation; 6: A North Sea Coastal Area Under Pressure of Land Consolidation. Transition from a Farmers' Republic to an Unequal Polder Society in the Oldambt of Groningen, 1700-1900; 7: Exploring Long-Term Inequality and Agro-Towns in the Kingdom of Naples, 1600-1900; 8: Conclusion
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