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Author Sharp, Buchanan, 1942- author.

Title Famine and scarcity in late medieval and early modern England : the regulation of grain marketing, 1256-1631 / Buchanan Sharp.

Publication Info. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 264 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Early market regulation to 1327 -- The response of Edward II and his government to the Great Famine -- The food riots of 1347 -- Royal paternalism and the response to dearth, 1349-1376 -- Scarcity and food riots, 1377-1439 -- Harvest failure and scarcity in the reign of Henry VIII -- The official language of commonwealth and the popular response to scarcity in the reign of Henry VIII -- The moral economy, 1547-1631 and beyond.
Summary This book examines governmental and crowd responses to famine, from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era.
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Subject Famines -- England -- History.
Famines.
England.
History.
Scarcity -- Political aspects -- England -- History.
Scarcity -- Political aspects.
Scarcity.
Food riots -- England -- History.
Food riots.
Grain trade -- Political aspects -- England -- History.
Marketing -- Political aspects -- England -- History.
Agriculture and state -- England -- History.
Agriculture and state.
Great Britain -- History -- 1066-1687.
Great Britain.
Chronological Term 1066-1687
Subject Grain trade -- Political aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce.
Grain trade.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General.
Marketing.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781107121829 1107121825 (DLC) 2016000903 (OCoLC)939244953
ISBN 9781316401200 (electronic book)
1316401200 (electronic book)
9781316599686 (electronic book)
131659968X (electronic book)
1107551781
9781107551787
1316599086 (e-book)
9781316599082 (e-book)
9781107121829
1107121825
9781107551787 (paperback)

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