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The Great Famine
by Jordan, William Chester
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0691058911
- ISBN 13
- 9780691058917
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About This Item
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 3rd. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This book is a Near Fine in a soft cover. 8vo. World History. 3rd Edition. 1998. 317pp with index, bibliograhy, and notes. The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived on for centuries in the minds of Europeans who recalled tales of widespread hunger, class warfare, epidemic disease, frighteningly high mortality, and unspeakable crimes. Until now, no one has offered a perspective of what daily life was actually like throughout the entire region devastated by this crisis, nor has anyone probed far into its causes. Here, the distinguished historian William Jordan provides the first comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Poland, from Scandinavia to central France and western Germany. He produces a rich cultural history of medieval community life, drawing his evidence from such sources as meteorological and agricultural records, accounts kept by monasteries providing for the needy, and documentation of military campaigns. Whereas there has been a tendency to describe the food shortages as a result of simply bad weather or else poor economic planning, Jordan sets the stage so that we see the complex interplay of social and environmental factors that caused this particular disaster and allowed it to continue for so long..
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- Bookseller
- First Landing Books & Art (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57926
- Title
- The Great Famine
- Author
- Jordan, William Chester
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 3rd
- ISBN 10
- 0691058911
- ISBN 13
- 9780691058917
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Europe, History, Economic Conditions
- Bookseller catalogs
- World History;
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