War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries / / Myron P. Gutmann.
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 betw...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1980 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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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