The World the Plague Made (eBook)

The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

James Belich (Autor)

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2022
640 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22287-5 (ISBN)

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A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The World the Plague Made is a panoramic history of how the bubonic plague revolutionized labour, trade, and technology and set the stage for Europe's global expansion.James Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new light on one of history's greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe's dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? Belich shows how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as it decimated the population. Many more people had disposable incomes. Demand grew for silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold, and slaves. Europe expanded to satisfy that demandand plague provided the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of waterpower, wind power, and gunpowder. Technologies like water-powered blast furnaces, heavily gunned galleons, and musketry were fast-tracked by plague. A new ';crew culture' of ';disposable males' emerged to man the guns and galleons.Setting the rise of Western Europe in global context, Belich demonstrates how the mighty empires of the Middle East and Russia also flourished after the plague, and how European expansion was deeply entangled with the Chinese and other peoples throughout the world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 12 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 14th century • abolitionism • Abrahamic religions • adultery • Alans • Alemanni • Almohad Caliphate • Amor Vincit Omnia (Caravaggio) • Antonine Plague • Appanage • arabs • Atlantic Europe • Atlantic World • Bactria • Bedouin • Black Death • Black rat • blood meal • bribery • brown rat • Bruges • bubonic plague • bulgars • Burnt Norton • Byzantine Empire • Byzantium • Caliphate • cattle • Central Asia • Chagatai khanate • Child Mortality • Cholera • Christendom • Cinque Ports • city-state • Civil War • climate change • Colonialism • communism • contraband • Coromandel Coast • Corruption in India • Cossack host • Crimean Tatars • Crucible steel • Crusades • Death • Debasement • deforestation • Demography • Desertion • Devaluation • disaster • Disease • Division of Labour • Dromedary • dye • Eastern Europe • Economic History • Edward Gibbon • Edward VIII • Encirclement • endemism • Energy in the United States • Enfilade and defilade • Epidemic • epidemiology • Epizootic • Euboea • Eunuch • Eurasia • Europe • Exoticism • expansionism • Expense • Extortion • Extreme weather • feudalism • Funeral Blues • Gerbil • Golden Horde • Great Depression • Great Divergence • Great gerbil • Great Horde • Greek tragedy • habitat destruction • Hafsid dynasty • Hanseatic League • Harry Ransom Center • Herat • Horror and terror • Human flea • HUNS • Ibn Battuta • idiosyncrasy • Ilkhanate • imperialism • Indian Ocean • Indigenous peoples of the Americas • industrialisation • Infection • infectivity • infidel • Inflation • Influenza • Infrastructure • Institution • Islam • Journey to a War • Khazars • Kipchaks • London • Looting • louse • Lübeck • Maghreb • Malaria • Malthusian catastrophe • Mamluk • Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo) • Manichaeism • Marinid dynasty • Marseille • Marxism • Massacre of the Innocents • mass grave • measles • Mithraism • Monotheism • mortality rate • mortal sin • Mughal Empire • Muhammad • natural disaster • Nawabs of Bengal and Murshidabad • Neglect • new imperialism • North Africa • Ostsiedlung • Ottoman Egypt • Ottoman Empire • outbreak • Pamphlet • Pandemic • Patchwork • pathogen • Pathology • peasant • Persecution • Phrygia • Plague (disease) • Plague of Justinian • plague pit • Plagues and Peoples • Pneumonic Plague • Poetry • Pogrom • Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth • Polytomy • Population decline • Porcelain • Postal order • Poverty • Privateer • Pulicosis • Racism • Rat • Rat flea • Rise of the Ottoman Empire • Risk of infection • Robin Skelton • rodent • Roman candle (firework) • Safavid Dynasty • Sapping • Second plague pandemic • second strike • serfdom • Ship • Silk Road • slash-and-burn • Slavery • Smallpox • Smuggling • Social Complexity • societal collapse • Sogdia • Sonderweg • Southern Europe • spice trade • Spread of Islam • stanza • Stephen Spender • Sub-Saharan Africa • Sumptuary law • Superiority (short story) • Sylvatic plague • Tarim Basin • Teutonic Order • The Bacchae • Timur • Transoxiana • Triangular Trade • Triumphalism • typhoid fever • Typhus • Typographical error • Umiak • Uzbekistan • Violence • war • warfare • War of succession • Western Europe • western roman empire • World Government • World History • World War I • World War II • xiongnu • Yellow fever • Yersinia Pestis • zoonosis • Zoroastrianism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22287-8 / 0691222878
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22287-5 / 9780691222875