Wilhelm Abel

Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe

From the Thirteenth to twentieth centuries

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book's importance lies in tracing the long-term trends that have characterized European economic development since the High Middle Ages, and as such it has made an invaluable contribution to all comparative analyses of different Western European countries since it was first published in 1980.

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This study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history. Using international data, similarities in economic development are demonstrated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 740g
• ISBN-13: 9780415376983
• ISBN-10: 041537698X
• Artikelnr.: 21719641

Autorenporträt

Wilhelm Abel

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Joan Thirsk Introduction Part 1: Changes in Agrarian Economy of
Western and Central Europe from the Thirteenth Century to the End of the
Fifteenth Century 1. Rising Agrarian Prosperity During the High Middle Ages
2. The Fourteenth-century Recession 3. The Late Medieval Agrarian
Depression Part 2: Changes in the Agrarian Economy of Western and Central
Europe from the Sixteenth-Century to the Mid-Eighteenth Century 4. Farming
and the Standard of Living in the Sixteenth Century 5. Slumps, Wars, and
the Long Term Downward Trend 6. Decline and Depression Part 3: The Agrarian
Economy of Western and Central Europe from the Mid-Eighteenth to the
Mid-Nineteenth Century 7. The Upward Trend of Agriculture During the Second
Half of the Eighteenth Century 8. The Agrarian Depression of the Early
Nineteenth Century 9. Mass Poverty Part 4: The Agrarian Economy of Western
and Central Europe in the Industrial Age 10. The Solution to the Problems
of Inadequate Food Supply 11. Agrarian Crises During the Industrial Era
Summary and Conclusion Appendix