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Books > History > European history > From 1900
In the late fourteenth century, the medieval Crown of Aragon
experienced a series of food crises that created conflict and led
to widespread starvation. Adam Franklin-Lyons applies contemporary
understandings of complex human disasters, vulnerability, and
resilience to explain how these famines occurred and to describe
more accurately who suffered and why. Shortage and Famine in the
Late Medieval Crown of Aragon details the social causes and
responses to three events of varying magnitude that struck the
western Mediterranean: the minor food shortage of 1372, the serious
but short-lived crisis of 1384-85, and the major famine of 1374-76,
the worst famine of the century in the region. Shifts in military
action, international competition, and violent attempts to control
trade routes created systemic panic and widespread starvation-which
in turn influenced decades of economic policy, social practices,
and even the course of geopolitical conflicts, such as the War of
the Two Pedros and the papal schism in Italy. Providing new
insights into the intersecting factors that led to famine in the
fourteenth-century Mediterranean, this deeply researched,
convincingly argued book presents tools and models that are broadly
applicable to any historical study of vulnerabilities in the human
food supply. It will be of interest to scholars of medieval Iberia
and the medieval Mediterranean as well as to historians of food and
of economics.
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The Will To Tell
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Yitzhak Weizman; Cover design or artwork by Jan Fine; Edited by Leon Zamosc
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A TRUE CELEBRATION OF HEROISM AND BRAVERY From America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose, comes a brilliant telling of World War II in Europe, from D-Day, June 6, 1944, to the end, eleven months later, on May 7, 1945. The author himself drew this authoritative narrative account from his five acclaimed books about that conflict, to yield what has been called "the best single-volume history of the war that most of us will ever read."
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