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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464342203321

Autore

Curtis Daniel R.

Titolo

Coping with crisis : the resilience and vulnerability of pre-industrial settlements / / Daniel R. Curtis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-317-15964-0

1-317-15963-2

1-4724-2005-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Collana

Rural Worlds: Economic, Social and Cultural Histories of Agricultures and Rural Societies

Disciplina

307.7209

307.72094/0902

307.720940902

Soggetti

Crisis management - Europe - History

Organizational resilience - Europe - History

Disasters - Social aspects - Europe - History

Communities - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Europe Rural conditions History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations and Contractions; Measurements; 1 Defining Settlement 'Resilience' and 'Vulnerability' and Introducing the Historiography; 2 The Theoretical Framework; 3  Parasite or Stimulant?; 4  Settlement Decline before the Black Death?; 5  Village Communities and Commercialisation; 6  A North Sea Coastal Area Under Pressure of Land Consolidation; 7  Exploring Long-Term Inequality and Agro-Towns in the Kingdom of Naples, 1600-1900; 8 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: earthquakes, plague, warfare, soil erosion and subsistence crises. However, while some settlements were stable over the long term, other settlements



proved more vulnerable to crisis. This book has been stimulated by the hypotheses put forward by a recent 'disaster studies' literature, which suggests that vulnerability of habitation is less to do with the crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses. By testing the explanatory framework on several societies between the Middle Ages and nineteenth-century Europe, it is argued