Hindle, Steve, 1965-. (2007) Dearth and the English revolution : the harvest crisis of 1647-50. Economic History Review, Vol.61 (No.1). pp. 64-98. ISSN 0013-0117

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Abstract

This article reconstructs the nature and scale of dearth in the late 1640s, emphasizing the coincidence of economic distress with constitutional crisis. It reconsiders the parish register evidence for subsistence crisis; examines the responses of central and local government; analyses the role of popular agency, especially though petitioning campaigns, in prompting reluctant magistrates to regulate the grain markets along lines stipulated by the late Elizabethan and early Stuart dearth orders, which had not been proclaimed since 1630; and accordingly suggests that the late 1640s represents a missing link in the historiography of responses to harvest failure.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Famines -- England -- History -- 17th century, Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714, England -- Economic conditions
Journal or Publication Title:	Economic History Review
Publisher:	Blackwell
ISSN:	0013-0117
Date:	23 October 2007
Volume:	Vol.61
Number:	No.1
Page Range:	pp. 64-98
Identification Number:	10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00415.x
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/325

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