Dearth, Public Policy and Social Disturbance in England, 1550–1800Palgrave Macmillan UK, 18/06/1991 - 71 من الصفحات After the mid-18th century dearth no longer produced marked rises in deaths in many English communities. What it did produce, however, was rioting. This study surveys the literature on dearth while concentrating on government policy towards grain provisioning in periods of dearth. |
المحتوى
The Meaning and Measurement of Dearth | 9 |
Crises of Subsistence? | 22 |
Public Policy | 35 |
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Agrarian History Agricultural Appleby areas argued Ashton average bad harvests barley behaviour Bohstedt Book of Orders bridge University Press Cambridge University Press cent central government changes Charlesworth consumers contemporary Corn Laws crops Cumbria death rate deficiencies Devizes disease early seventeenth centuries Economic History Review Economic History Society eighteenth century English example famine farmers food prices food riots frequently Galloway grain prices grain riots growth harvest failure historians History of England Hoskins industrial intervention Lancashire Laslett later London Michael Anderson middlemen moral economy mortality crises north-west nutritional oats Outhwaite parliament perhaps poor population prices rose Privy Council problem produced Ralph Josselin real wages regions rioters rising Rotberg and Rabb scarcity second half sixteenth century Slack Social Disturbance social history Stevenson Stuart England subsistence crises suspend exports tendencies Thirsk tion towns trade trend Tudor and Stuart Walter and Schofield wheat harvests wheat prices whilst Wrigley and Schofield yields