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The agrarian crisis of 1315–17, known to history as the Great Famine, was one of the most devastating environmental crises to hit Europe within the last two millennia. The almost biblical flooding of 1314–16 brought about a series of crop failures, triggering a widespread agricultural crisis that unfolded into a catastrophic famine, which hit both human and animal populations with unprecedented force. The impact of this crisis, and the major long-term environmental consequences that followed, thus mark a truly watershed moment in European history. This volume provides an in-depth study of the Great Famine as it affected the British Isles, but through this focused approach, it also offers new insights into the late-medieval North European economy and society at a time of political, socio-economic, and biological shocks and crises. Close analysis of contemporary archival sources reveals that the Great Famine was a highly complex phenomenon made by both Nature and man; and this is reflected in a highly interdisciplinary approach that studies climate, economy, demography, and health, as well as the way in which human behaviour further exacerbated the impact of famine.

Famines --- Famine --- Food supply --- Starvation --- History --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1300-1399 --- 942.03 --- 338 <09> --- 338.43 --- 338.43 Landbouweconomie --- Landbouweconomie --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis--OPEC --- Economische geschiedenis--OPEC --- 942.03 Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1154-1399) --- Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1154-1399)

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"Since the early years of telegraphy, modernity at large generated and has depended upon technologies of electrical/electronic communication and information circulation: from telephone, radio, and television to the internet. This volume reveals these connecting technologies' geopolitical importance and their crucial relationships with culture, commerce, and communities. Also the authors critically examine their spatial dimensions and transnational implications - as material objects with particular qualities, as elements in institutional complexes, and as 'vehicles' carrying complex symbolic meanings. Through in-depth assessments of critical, as well as mundane, events in the history of communications and information, these analyses will significantly alter conventional perspectives both on communications and on modern European history"--Back cover.

History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1800-1999 --- Telecommunication --- Broadband communication systems --- Information networks --- Information society --- Automated information networks --- Networks, Information --- Information services --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Wideband communication systems --- Telecommunication systems --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- History --- Technological innovations --- 338 (4) --- 338 <09> --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis--OPEC --- Economische geschiedenis--OPEC --- 338 (4) Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Europa --- Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Europa