The World the Plague Made : : The Black Death and the Rise of Europe / / James Belich.
A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold sufferin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (640 p.) :; 12 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction: Plague Paradoxes
- Prologue: Globalising Europe
- Part I A Plague of Mysteries
- Introduction
- 1 The Black Death and the Plague Era
- 2 The Origins and Dynamics of the Black Death
- Part II Plague and Expansionism in Western Europe
- Introduction
- 3 A Golden Age? Economy and Society in the Ear ly Plague Er a
- 4 Expansive Trades
- 5 Plague Revolutions?
- 6 Expansive Labour: Castas, Race Mothers, and Disposable Males
- 7 States, Interstates, and the European Expansion Kit
- Part III Western Europe or West Eurasia?
- 8 Plague’s Impact in the Muslim South
- 9 Early Modern Ming-Muslim Globalisation
- 10 Entwined Empires: The Genoese Paradox and Iberian Expansion
- 11 The Ottomans and the Great Diversion
- 12 The Dutch Puzzle and the Mobilisation of Eastern Europe
- 13 Muslim Colonial Empires
- 14 Plague and Russian Expansion
- Part IV Expansion, Industry, and Empire
- Introduction
- 15 Empire? What Empire? European Expansion to 1800
- 16 Plaguing Britain
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE