Crises in Economic and Social History: A Comparative Perspective

Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first.

This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fie...