War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries / / Myron P. Gutmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gutmann, Myron P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 675
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

In addition to famine and disease, war had a considerable impact on rural society in early modern Europe. Myron Gutmann studies this impact through a systematic analysis of military, economic, and demographic variables as they affected the Basse-Meuse area in Eastern Belgium and the Netherlands between 1620 and 1750.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations - maps - tables - figures -- Abbreviations used in notes and bibliography -- A note on measures and moneys -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: The Background -- Introduction: War and other crises in early modern life -- I. Magnet for Armies: the Basse-Meuse Under the Ancien Régime -- Part 2: The Burden of Military Presence -- II. "God Preserve us From Living Through Times of War" -- III. The Burden Lightens -- Part 3: War and the Economy -- IV. The Farmers: Short-Circuiting Agricultural Production -- V. Prices and the Liégeois Food Supply in Time of War -- Part 4: Victims and Survivors -- VI. The Specter of Depopulation -- VII. The Victims: Death and Military Action -- VIII. The Survivors: Childbearing and Marriage -- IX. The Impact of War in Perspective -- Appendixes -- A. A Chronology of Military and Political Events in the Basse- Meuse -- Β. An Index of Extreme Behavior -- C. Index Values for Grain Prices -- D. Correlation Coefficients for Variables Describing Life in the Basse-Meuse -- E. Methods for Correcting Incomplete Parish Register Data -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index