Food crises have always tested societies. This volume discusses societal resilience to food crises, examining the responses and strategies at the societal level that effectively helped individuals and groups to cope with drops in food supply, in various parts of the world over the past two millennia.
Societal responses can be coordinated by the state, the market, or civil society. Here it is shown that it was often a combined effort, but that there were significant variations between regions and periods. The long-term, comparative perspective of the volume brings out these variations, explains them, and discusses their effects on societal resilience.
This book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers across economic history, institutional economics, social history and development studies.
1. Resilience to famine ca. 600 BC-present: an introduction Jessica
Dijkman and Bas van Leeuwen
1. Central issue
2. Theories and concepts
3.
Famine resilience in historical research
4. Some general patterns Part
IPremodern world
2. Responses to food shortages in core regions of antiquity
compared Bas van Leeuwen and Jieli Li
1. Introduction
2. The nature of
famines in core regions
3. Societal resilience
4. Concluding comparison
3.
Political, social and economic determinants of responses to food crises in
the early Roman empire Luuk de Ligt
1. Introduction
2. Famines and food
shortages in the Roman world
3. The food supply of the city of Rome
4.
Intervention by provincial governors 5. The role of free trade in resolving
urban food crises
6. Public institutions and private benefactors
7. Benefactors, public grain-buyers and the grain market
8. Conclusions
4.
Feeding the hungry: Poor relief and famine in northwestern Europe, 1500-1700
Jessica Dijkman
1. Introduction 2. Southeastern England 3. The northwestern
Low Countries
4. Northwestern France
5. Conclusions
5. Inca responses to
environmental hazards in the capital region and provinces R. Alan Covey
1.
Introduction
2. Andean hazards and food supplies 3. Inca state interventions
in the Cuzco region 4. Inca state intervention in provincial regions
5.
Conclusions
6. Coping with famines in Ottoman Anatolia (1650-1850) Semih
Ēelik
1. Introduction
2. There is famine everywhere; no bread to eat
Bread prices and chronology of famines in Anatolia (1650-1850)
3. Crises in
detail 4. Flight, migration and settlement pattern changes
5. Changes in
economic activities 6. If you are subjects of the sultan, so are we!
Politics of famine resilience
7. What do you mean by hunger? Politics of
famine resilience
8. Conclusion Part IIModern world 7. Whose famine? Regional
differences in vulnerability and resilience during the 1840s potato famine in
Belgium Esth
Jessica Dijkman is Assistant Professor in economic history at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Bas van Leeuwen is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands.
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