The Great Famine

The Great Famine
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The early 1300s must have seemed like the end of the world to the unfortunate inhabitants of Europe: brutally severe winters gave way to lightning storms and torrential, crop-destroying rains in spring, followed by cold summers and then bitter winters again. "The whole world was troubled," wrote one Austrian chronicler; yet that was only the beginning. Princeton University historian William Chester Jordan reconstructs the terrible decades when climatological change led to famine, disease, rampant inflation, and social breakdown across the European continent, a time when every prayer for relief was met by even crueler turns of fate.
Country USA
Brand Princeton University Press
Manufacturer Princeton University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1998-01-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780691058917

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