The European Crisis of the 1590s : Essays in Comparative History (Hardcover)

Part One? 1. Introduction ?2. Dearth, the English Crown and the ‘Crisis of the 1590s’ ?3. A Crisis Contained? The Condition of English Towns in the 1590s? 4. Dearth, Famine and Social Policy in the Dutch Republic at the End of the Sixteenth Century ?5. Civil War and Natural Disaster in Northern France? 6. The Later Wars of Religion in the French Midi? 7. The European Crisis of the 1590s: the Situation in German Towns ?8. Northern Italy in the 1590s? 9. Southern Italy in the 1590s: Hard Times or Crisis?? 10. Village-Building in Sicily: an Aristocratic Remedy for the Crisis of the 1590s? 11. Spain: a Failed Transition ?Part Two? 12. Demographic Crisis and Europe in the 1590s? 13. Popular Disorder? 14. The Impact of War ?15. The Roles of the State and the Town in the General Crisis of the 1590s ?16. Yet Another Crisis?