Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements
Author:   Daniel R. Curtis ,  Professor Richard W. Hoyle
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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Pages:   404
Publication Date:   29 August 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements


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Author:   Daniel R. Curtis ,  Professor Richard W. Hoyle
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.884kg
ISBN:  

9781472420046


ISBN 10:   1472420047
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   29 August 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1: Defining Settlement ‘Resilience' and ‘Vulnerability' and Introducing the Historiography; 2: The Theoretical Framework; 3: Parasite or Stimulant? The Divergent Impact of the City of Florence upon its Surrounding Rural Hinterlands, 1300–1580; 4: Settlement Decline before the Black Death? Dealing with Pressure on Resources in Two Regions of Medieval Cambridgeshire, 1200–1340; 5: Village Communities and Commercialisation; 6: A North Sea Coastal Area Under Pressure of Land Consolidation. Transition from a Farmers' Republic to an Unequal Polder Society in the Oldambt of Groningen, 1700–1900; 7: Exploring Long-Term Inequality and Agro-Towns in the Kingdom of Naples, 1600–1900; 8: Conclusion

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Daniel R. Curtis is currently working at Utrecht University at the Research Institute for History and Art History, and is employed on a European Research Council-funded project entitled 'Coordinating for Life. Success and Failure of Western European Societies in Coping with Rural Hazards and Disasters, 1300-1800' led by Professor Bas van Bavel. He has published articles in a variety of journals such as Continuity and Change, Journal of Medieval History, and Journal of Historical Geography, on an assortment of themes including rural resilience and vulnerability to shocks and stress, settlement development, land consolidation and inequality, the relationship between city and countryside, and common-pool resources.

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