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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2016
      23 June 2016
      ISBN:
      9781139031110
      9780521195881
      9780521144438
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031110
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.9kg, 490 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 485 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Environmental History, History, Regional History Before 1500
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    Environmental History, History, Regional History Before 1500
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    In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and realignment of Western Europe's late medieval commercial economy.

    Awards

    Winner, 2017 Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize, Economic History Society

    Shortlisted, 2017 Turku Book Award, Environmental Society for European History and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

    Reviews

    'Promises to be the new bible in environmental history.'

    Source: Medieval Histories (www.medievalhistories.com)

    'Bruce M. S. Campbell’s latest book is grounded in prodigious reading from a wide range of disciplines, cutting across fields of agricultural, geographical, economic, social and church history, and into the latest findings in the genetics of Yersinia pestis and especially climate history.'

    Samuel J. Cohn, Jr Source: The English Historical Review

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