Crises in economic and social history : a comparative perspective / edited by A.T. Brown, Andy Burn and Rob Doherty.

• This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fields of research. This volume breaks down the boundaries between traditional historical time periods and sub-disciplines of history to examine the ways in which past societies have coped with crises, and the role of crisis in generating economic and social change. Should we conceptualise a medieval agrarian or financial crisis differently from their modern counterparts? Were there similarities in how contemporaries responded to famine or outbreaks of disease? How comparable are crises within households, within institutions, or across national and international networks of trade? 

Ämnesord

Ekonomiska kriser  (sao)

Historia  (sao)

Socialhistoria  (sao)

Social history.  (LCSH)

Economic history  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Crises  -- History. (LCSH)

Financial crises  -- History. (LCSH)

Crises. 

Financial crises. 

Social history. 

Economic history  -- Social aspects.

Financial crises  (LCSH)

Social history  (LCSH)

History  (LCSH)

Genre

History. 

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Qac Konjunkturteori och konjunkturlära

Klassifikation

HN13 (LCC)

306.09 (DDC)

Qac (kssb/8)