Year: 1991
Type: article
Abstract: E MO C ROAP H I C and economic fluctuations anid their interrelations have been a privileged research theme in modern European history. Recurrent changes in climate that resulted in crop failures, shortages, and famines, frequently accompanied by outbreaks of epidemics, led historians of preindustrial Europe to a reconceptualization of the past that emphasizes the of subsistence or the Ancien Regirne crisis as phenomena of great importance in agrarian societies.' In the last few decades students of demographic history have refined our understanding of the vital conse-
Author: Enrique Tandeter
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2314519401