The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe Belich James
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe Belich James A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in…
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe Belich James
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. but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering.
Why did Europe's dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? 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. Belich shows how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as it decimated the population. Many
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