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Crises in Economic and Social History : A Comparative Perspective, Paperback / softback Book

Crises in Economic and Social History : A Comparative Perspective Paperback / softback

Edited by A.T. Brown, Andy Burn, Rob Doherty

Part of the People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History series

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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.

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