The world the plague made : the Black Death and the rise of Europe / James Belich.

• Introduction: Plague paradoxes -- Prologue: Globalising Europe (Rethinking globalisation and divergence ; The equine revolution ; Super-crops, super-crafts ; Re-setting Europe) Part one: A plague of mysteries (1. The Black Death and the plague era [The Black Death ; Bringing in the dead ; Where was the Black Death ; The plague era] ; 2. The origins and dynamics of the Black Death [Plague prehistory ; Mongols and marmots versus gerbils and camels ; Rats on trial ; Immunity and resistance ; Plague's endings]) Part two: Plague and expansionism in western Europe (3. A golden age? Economy and society in the early plague era [A plagued economy ; A golden age for whom? ; Mass consumption?] ; 4. Expansive trades [The northern hunt trades ; Southern trades: sugar, spice, silk -- and slaves] ; 5. Plague revolutions? [A late medieval industrial revolution? ; The print revolution and the scribal transition ; A gunpowder revolution?] ; 6. Expansive labour: castas, race mothers and disposable males [Race and reproduction ; Race mothers and the settler divergence ; Disposable males: European "crew culture"] ; 7. States, interstates, and the European expansion kit [Warfare states ; Transnationalisms, networks and shape-shifters ; The western European expansion kit]) Part three: Western Europe or West Eurasia? (8. Plague's impact in the Muslim south [The Mamluk empire and the Maghreb ; Ottoman heartlands: the Balkans and Anatolia ; Greater Persia ; Shared revolutions?] ; 9. Early modern Ming-Muslim globalisation [Early modern Muslim mercantile expansion ; Chinese outreach ; Joint ventures in southeast Asia] ; 10. Entwined empires: the Genoese paradox and Iberian expansion [Genoese imperialisms ; Genoese plague responses: the origin of modern capitalism? ; Iberian entanglements: Portugal ; Iberian entanglements: Spain] ; 11. The Ottomans and the Great Diversion [The recovery state ; Ottoman urban colonisation and slavery ; The Ottomans and expansion beyond west Eurasia] ; 12. The Dutch puzzle and the mobilisation of eastern Europe [Plague and empire in eastern Europe ; Plague, institutions, and the rise of Holland ; Dutch expansion ; Amsterdam's empires] ; 13. Muslim colonial empires [The Moroccan colonial empire ; The Omani colonial empire ; The Mughals: a west Eurasian colonial empire?] ; 14. Plague and Russian expansionism [Novgorod: 'Rome of the waterways' ; Muscovite expansion to 1500 ; Hybridity and empire on the steppes ; Trade, settlement and hunting in Siberia, 1390-1800 ; Russia, China and global hunting]) Part four: Expansion, industry and empire (15. Empire? What empire? European expansion to 1800 [Africans ; The Americas ; India ; China's world ; Entwined empires] ; 16. Plaguing Britain [England's plague era ; Peculiar institutions? ; London's empires ; Peripheral peripheries? ; Transposing Lancashire and Bengal]) -- Conclusion. 

• "In 1346, Europe and its neighbours were beset by a terrible plague. In proportion to population, it may have been the most lethal catastrophe in human history. A sudden halving of the population that would not recover for centuries. It came to be called 'The Black Death' and it marked the onset of Western Europe's global expansion. This startling paradox is central to Plaguing History, offering as it does a new two-word answer to an old two-word question: Why Europe? Y. Pestis. The Black Death not only halved populations, but also doubled the average per capita endowment of everything. For the first time in history large proportions of Europe's population had a disposable income. Demand for goods - silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold - grew. So too for slaves. Europe expanded across the globe to satisfy such demands. But as well as providing the motives for expansion, plague added the means. Labour scarcity drove a turn towards more use of water-power, wind-power and gunpowder. Innumerable technologies - water-powered blast furnaces, the Atlantic sailing ship, musketry, eye-glasses - were 'pressure-cooked' into existence or improvement by the consequences of plague. If plague had this effect in Europe, why not in the Middle East too, which also suffered from the Black Death pandemic? This books answer is that it did: Ottoman and Safavid empires also flourished in the wake of plague. Morocco, Oman, and the Iran-based Mughals established colonial empires, at a distance from their metropolises, just like those of Europe. Plague-boosted European expansion was actually West Eurasian, and entangled with still other peoples, notably the Chinese, to reconfigure global history. In this book, James Belich of Oxford aims to deliver a new type of global history, one that ranges economic, ecological, bio-technological and cultural questions alongside one another to better understand the transformative connectivity of globalization"-- 

Ämnesord

Digerdöden  (sao)

Historia  (sao)

Black Death.  (LCSH)

History  (LCSH)

Black Death  (LCSH)

Europa  (sao)

Europe  -- History -- 476-1492. (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ka.35 Historia: Europa: högmedeltiden ca 1050-1300

Klassifikation

940.17 (DDC)

Ka.35 (kssb/8)