Nature as historical protagonist: environment and society in pre‐industrial England
This article compares chronologies reconstructed from historical records of prices, wages, grain harvests, and population with corresponding chronologies of growing conditions and climatic variations derived from dendrochronology and Greenland ice‐cores. It demonstrates that in pre‐industrial, and e...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00492.x 2024-09-30T14:35:51+00:00 Nature as historical protagonist: environment and society in pre‐industrial England CAMPBELL, BRUCE M. S. 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00492.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1468-0289.2009.00492.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00492.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor The Economic History Review volume 63, issue 2, page 281-314 ISSN 0013-0117 1468-0289 journal-article 2010 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00492.x 2024-09-17T04:49:58Z This article compares chronologies reconstructed from historical records of prices, wages, grain harvests, and population with corresponding chronologies of growing conditions and climatic variations derived from dendrochronology and Greenland ice‐cores. It demonstrates that in pre‐industrial, and especially late medieval, England, short‐term environmental shocks and more enduring shifts in environmental conditions (sometimes acting in concert with biological agencies) exercised a powerful influence upon the balance struck between population and available resources via their effects upon the reproduction, health and life expectancy of humans, crops, and livestock. Prevailing socio‐economic conditions and institutions, in turn, shaped society's susceptibility to these environmental shocks and shifts. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Greenland ice cores Wiley Online Library Greenland The Economic History Review 63 2 281 314 |
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This article compares chronologies reconstructed from historical records of prices, wages, grain harvests, and population with corresponding chronologies of growing conditions and climatic variations derived from dendrochronology and Greenland ice‐cores. It demonstrates that in pre‐industrial, and especially late medieval, England, short‐term environmental shocks and more enduring shifts in environmental conditions (sometimes acting in concert with biological agencies) exercised a powerful influence upon the balance struck between population and available resources via their effects upon the reproduction, health and life expectancy of humans, crops, and livestock. Prevailing socio‐economic conditions and institutions, in turn, shaped society's susceptibility to these environmental shocks and shifts. |
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