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Article: Hungerkrisen in Preussen wahrend der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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This is a statistically high-powered, theoretically sophisticated, empirically fresh, and convincingly argued study. It challenges the historical literature's interpretation of food shortages accompanied by high mortality in central Europe in the period 1815-1848 as instances of the "pre-industrial crises" or "crises of the ancien regime," which were first analyzed by Ernest Labrousse and, following his lead, introduced into German scholarship by Wilhelm Abel. In Bass's view, the severe hunger crises he investigates - in the Rhineland in 1816-17, in eastern Westphalia in 1831, and in Posen and East Prussia in 1846-47 - resulted not, as the literature would hold, from the ...
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