An Economic History of Famine Resilience (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Dijkman, Jessica; Leeuwen, Bas van

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume discusses societal resilience to food crises, examining the responses and strategies at the societal level that effectively helped individuals and groups to cope with drops in food supply in various parts of the world over the past two millennia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429575471
• Artikelnr.: 57931953

Autorenporträt

Jessica Dijkman is Assistant Professor in economic history at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Bas van Leeuwen is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Resilience to famine ca. 600 BC-present: an introduction Jessica Dijkman
and Bas van Leeuwen 1. Central issue 2. Theories and concepts 3. Famine
resilience in historical research 4. Some general patterns Part IPremodern
world 2. Responses to food shortages in core regions of antiquity compared
Bas van Leeuwen and Jieli Li 1. Introduction 2. The nature of famines in
core regions 3. Societal resilience 4. Concluding comparison 3. Political,
social and economic determinants of responses to food crises in the early
Roman empire Luuk de Ligt 1. Introduction 2. Famines and food shortages in
the Roman world 3. The food supply of the city of Rome 4. Intervention by
provincial governors 5. The role of free trade in resolving urban food
crises 6. Public institutions and private benefactors 7. Benefactors,
public grain-buyers and the grain market 8. Conclusions 4. Feeding the
hungry: Poor relief and famine in northwestern Europe, 1500-1700 Jessica
Dijkman 1. Introduction 2. Southeastern England 3. The northwestern Low
Countries 4. Northwestern France 5. Conclusions 5. Inca responses to
environmental hazards in the capital region and provinces R. Alan Covey 1.
Introduction 2. Andean hazards and food supplies 3. Inca state
interventions in the Cuzco region 4. Inca state intervention in provincial
regions 5. Conclusions 6. Coping with famines in Ottoman Anatolia
(1650-1850) Semih Çelik 1. Introduction 2. "There is famine everywhere; no
bread to eat" - Bread prices and chronology of famines in Anatolia
(1650-1850) 3. Crises in detail 4. Flight, migration and settlement pattern
changes 5. Changes in economic activities 6. "If you are subjects of the
sultan, so are we!" - Politics of famine resilience 7. "What do you mean by
hunger?" - Politics of famine resilience 8. Conclusion Part IIModern world
7. Whose famine? Regional differences in vulnerability and resilience
during the 1840s potato famine in Belgium Esth