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Dearth, Public Policy, and Social Disturbance in England, 1550-1800 (Studies in Economic and Social History)

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Author: R. B. Outhwaite
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 96

ISBN: 0333524241
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0942
EAN: 9780333524244
ASIN: 0333524241

Publication Date: December 1991
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Product Description
The past 20 years have witnessed an explosion of interest in the themes of social history examined in this book. Historical demographers have examined those leaps in the number of burials they refer to as "crisis morality" and have explored their connections with those periodic serious failures of grain harvests that are a natural consequence of our climate. Social historians interested in the political behaviour of ordinary people have focused considerable attention on riots, many of them occuring in those periods of "death" consequent on severe harvest failure. In the 250 years covered in this study some of the more serious consequences of harvest failure appear to have diminished. After the mid 18th century dearth no longer produced marked rises in the number of deaths in a great many English communities. What it did produce, however, was widespread rioting. This study surveys the enormous literature these subjects have spawned, concentrating on problems still outstanding, and attempts to further our understanding of key aspects by tracing changes in government policy towards grain provisioning in periods of dearth.

Book Description
In the years between 1550 and 1800, serious harvest failure has been connected with a marked increase in the political activity of the ordinary people, and attention has been focused on food riots. This concise survey considers the enormous volume of literature generated on the subject.