Coping with Crisis : the Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements /

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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 forw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Curtis, Daniel R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2014.
Colección:Rural worlds.
Temas:
Crisis management > Europe > History.
Organizational resilience > Europe > History.
Disasters > Social aspects > Europe > History.
Communities > Europe > History.
Gestion de crise > Europe > Histoire.
Résilience organisationnelle > Europe > Histoire.
Catastrophes > Aspect social > Europe > Histoire.
Communauté > Europe > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Communities
Crisis management
Disasters > Social aspects
Organizational resilience
Rural conditions
Europe > Rural conditions > History.
Europe > Rural conditions.
Europe > Conditions rurales.
Europe
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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