Economic and Social History of a European Famine Comparative Perspectives on Northern European Harvest Failures in the 1860s

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Preface and Acknowledgements

1.      Introduction: comparative perspectives on Northern European harvest failures in the 1860s

Henrik Forsberg and Magnus Bohman

2.      Weather and climate in the 1860s

Heli Huhtamaa

3.      Russia and the Baltic food crises of the late 1860s. 

Stephen G. Wheatcroft

4.      Germany’s last food crisis (1867/68): Food insecurity at the crossroads of industrialisation, globalisation and state growth

Ulrich Pfister

5.      The great famine in the 1860s in Finland: the process and actions

Antti Häkkinen

6.      Crisis management based on modern flow of information. Autumn of 1867: racing against time

Pertti Hakala

7.      Crisis management based on modern flow of information. Winter of 1867–1868: trying to cope

Pertti Hakala

8.      Impact of the 1860s famine on fertility and mortality in rural Finland

Sara Luostarinen

9.      The demographics of the 1860s famine in Västerbotten, Northern Sweden

Magnus Bohman and Erling Häggström Gunfridsson

10.   Crisis on the local level: the case of rural Burträsk 1851–1875

Elisabeth Engberg

11.   Nature, markets or governance? Understanding the hunger crisis in Dalsland, western Sweden 1868–1870

Erik Hallberg and Lars Nyström

12.   Extreme weather, extreme deprivation? Regional patterns of the famine in the Russian Baltic provinces, 1867–69

Kersti Lust and Jaak Jagus

13.   Regional diversity and famine: Gulf of Bothnia in the 1860s

Henrik Forsberg

14.   Baltic island communities in times of dearth in the late 1860s: vulnerable vs resilient areas

Kersti Lust and Henrik Forsberg

15.   An integrated understanding of the 1860s famine: a concluding discussion

Magnus Bohman and Henrik Forsberg

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Biography

Henrik Forsberg (DSS) is an economic and social historian and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on famine, crises, and mnemohistory in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Northern Europe, with particular expertise in Finland, Sweden, and Ireland.

Magnus Bohman is an Associate Professor of Economic History and Landscape Science at Kristianstad University, Sweden. His research focuses mainly on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Swedish rural history in a comparative European perspective, with particular emphasis on how societies have coped with different kinds of stressors.