Famine as agricultural catastrophe: The crisis of 1622-4 in east Lancashire

Economic History Review

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 974-1002

  Hoyle, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARABLE FARMING; FAMINE; SEVENTEENTH CENTURY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CLIMATE; DISASTER; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; INCOME; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STARVATION; UNITED KINGDOM; WEATHER;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE; DISASTERS; FOOD SUPPLY; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; INCOME; MORTALITY; STARVATION; WEATHER;

ENGLAND; LANCASHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78650488280     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00510.x     Document Type: Article

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