Pre-Modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes: East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective Antonn Malankov Michaela
Pre-Modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes: East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective Antonn Malankov Michaela Covering areas in today's Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and…
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Pre-Modern Towns at the Times of Catastrophes: East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective Antonn Malankov Michaela
Covering areas in today's Ukraine, Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia, this book studies the impact of both natural and human-inflicted disasters on pre-modern towns.Various kinds of catastrophes, starting with major natural disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes and epidemics caused high population mortality. Crises affected not only the population as a whole, but also townsmen and women in their individual lives. Others, such as protracted war conflicts, were caused by human activity and could be just as, if not more, destructive for cities, their populations and the urban economy.
The collection presents analytical research anchored in the contemporary historiographical discourse on studying social Case studies of renewal and resilience in the volume illustrate that, in many cases, successfully overcoming disaster brought positive changes for urban people.