Famine European History Paperback 9781316631836 Cond=LN:NSD

Famine in European History\n\nThe first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present.\n\nGuido Alfani (Edited by), Cormac \u00D3 Gr\u00E1da (Edited by)\n\n9781316631836 (SKU 3256150), Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 18 August 2017\n\n336 pages\n22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.51 kg\n\n'This impressive volume presents a series of quantitatively rich historical studies by leading scholars that together offer a broad picture of famine in Europe - scale, context, and cause and effect - from medieval times onward.' Geoffrey McNicoll, Population and Development Review\n\nThis is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and Russia, leading scholars compare the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine. The famines they describe differ greatly in size, duration and context; in many cases the damage wr]