The Great Famine
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780691058917
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Famine; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Medieval; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; European History; History / Medieval; Mind, Body, Spirit; Sociology
First sentence: THE WORD famine, as used in this book, refers to a catastrophic subsistence crisis, the extreme limit of a wide spectrum of shortages that have sometimes been given the name in popular writing and speech.