Call number:
9783319543376 (e-book)
Description / Table of Contents:
This highly interdisciplinary book studies historical famines as an interface of nature and culture. It will bring together researchers from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. With reference to recent interdisciplinary concepts (disaster studies, vulnerability studies, environmental history) it will examine, how the dominant opposition of natural and cultural factors can be overcome. Such an integrated approach includes the "archives of nature" as well as "archives of man". It challenges deterministic models of human-environment interaction and replaces them with a dynamic, historicising approach. As a result it provides a fresh perspective on the entanglement of climate and culture in past societies.
Type of Medium:
12
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 269 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9783319543376
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978-3-319-54337-6
URL:
Ebook (access only within the AWI network)
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-54337-6
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Famines: At the Interface of Nature and Society / Dominik Collet and Maximilian Schuh
Part II Interdisciplinary Approaches
2 The European Mortality Crises of 1346–52 and Advent of the Little Ice Age / Bruce M.S. Campbell
3 Combining Written and Tree-Ring Evidence to Trace Past Food Crises: A Case Study from Finland / Heli Huhtamaa
Part III Socionatural Entanglements
4 Two Decades of Crisis: Famine and Dearth During the 1480s and 1490s in Western and Central Europe / Chantal Camenisch
5 Climate and Famines in the Czech Lands Prior to AD 1500: Possible Interconnections in a European Context / Rudolf Brázdil, Oldřich Kotyza and Martin Bauch
6 Food Insecurity and Political Instability in the Southern Red Sea Region During the ‘Little Ice Age,’ 1650–1840 / Steven Serels
Part IV Coping
7 The Role of Climate and Famine in the Medieval Eastern Expansion / Andreas Rüther
8 Famines in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Test for an Advanced Economy / Guido Alfani
9 Bread for the Poor: Poor Relief and the Mitigation of the Food Crises of the 1590s and the 1690s in Berkel, Holland / Jessica Dijkman
10 Educationalizing Hunger. Dealing with the Famine of 1770/71 in Zurich / Andrea De Vincenti
Part V Perceiving and Remembering
11 Starvation Under Carolingian Rule. The Famine of 779 and the Annales Regni Francorum / Stephan Ebert
12 Staging the Return to Normality. Socio-cultural Coping Strategies with the Crisis of 1816/1817 / Maren Schulz
13 Remembering Hunger. Museums and the Material Culture of Famine / Andrea Fadani
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