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Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe: From the Thirteenth to twentieth centuries book cover

1st Edition

Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe From the Thirteenth to twentieth centuries

By Wilhelm Abel Copyright 1980
384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge
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Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and his scholarship and approach have had a decisive effect on the orientation of economic and agricultural history. Using data on... Read more

Foreword by Joan Thirsk

Introduction

PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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 THREE: 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 FOUR: 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

Biography

Wilhelm Abel

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