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Crises in Economic and Social History - A Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
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Crises in Economic and Social History - A Comparative Perspective (Paperback)
Series: People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History
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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 Jirkova, 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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