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Author Curtis, Daniel R., author.

Title Coping with Crisis : The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements / Daniel R. Curtis.

Publication Info. Farnham, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Rural worlds: economic, social and cultural histories of agricultures and rural societies
Rural worlds.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: earthquakes, plague, warfare, soil erosion and subsistence crises. However, while some settlements were stable over the long term, other settlements proved more vulnerable to crisis. This book has been stimulated by the hypotheses put forward by a recent 'disaster studies' literature, which suggests that vulnerability of habitation is less to do with the crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses. By testing the explanatory framework on several societies between the Middle Ages and nineteenth-century Europe, it is argued.
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Subject Crisis management -- Europe -- History.
Crisis management.
Europe.
History.
Organizational resilience -- Europe -- History.
Organizational resilience.
Disasters -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
Disasters -- Social aspects.
Disasters.
Communities -- Europe -- History.
Communities.
Europe -- Rural conditions -- History.
Rural conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Curtis, Daniel R., author. Coping with crisis 9781472420060
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