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Description du livre paperback. Etat : Good. 1. Throughout the fourteenth century ADeighth century H waves of plague swept out of Central Asia and decimated populations from China to Iceland So devastating was the Black Death across the Old World that some historians have compared its effects to those of a nuclear holocaust As countries began to recover from the plague during the following century sharp contrasts arose between the East where societies slumped into longterm economic and social decline and the West where technological and social innovation set the stage for Europes dominance into the twentieth century Why were there such opposite outcomes from the same catastrophic eventIn contrast to previous studies that have looked to differences between Islam and Christianity for the solution to the puzzle this pioneering work proposes that a countrys system of landholding primarily determined how successfully it recovered from the calamity of the Black Death Stuart Borsch compares the specific cases of Egypt and England countries whose economies were based in agriculture and whose preplague levels of total and agrarian gross domestic product were roughly equivalent Undertaking a thorough analysis of medieval economic data he cogently explains why Egypts centralized and urban landholding system was unable to adapt to massive depopulation while Englands localized and rural landholding system had fully recovered by the year 1500. N° de réf. du vendeur SONG0292722133