Subsistence crisis
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A ‘subsistence crisis’ may be defined as an economic crisis which threatens the food supplies or,more precisely, the survival prospects of large numbers of people. Although one can argue about ‘threatens’ and ‘large numbers', what is clear is that a genuine subsistence crisis has to show up in demographic data. It is a natural such as flood and sometimes man made disasters such as in case of war. http://www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006/papers3/Vanhaute.pdf
It was in France that the notion of a ’subsistence crisis’ was first formulated by Meuvret in 1946, and greatly popularised by Goubert in 1960 through his influential study of Beauvais and the Beauvaisis. The theory of subsistence crises, in its contemporary guise, was first formulated by Meuvret in 1946. As an economic historian and specialist in price history Meuvret was struck by the coincidence between high prices and the increase in the number of deaths in the region of Gien in 1709-10. He then posed the problem of the nature of demographic crises, very tentatively at first, since he thought it was a hopeless quest to try to distinguish statistically between phenomena that were so closely associated: namely, mortality through simple inanition; mortality caused by disease, though attributable to malnutrition; and mortality by contagion, which in turn was linked to the scarcity that helped both spawn diseases and spread them through the migration of poor beggars.
What Subsistence crisis took place in French Revolution http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_subsistence_crisis_that_rose_prior_to_French_Revolution
An example is the European subsistence crisis of 1315-1317.
Anothter example of a subsistence crisis is the Great Famine in Ireland. By the mid-1800s, the Irish had been living for decades in extreme poverty, but the repeated and total failure of the potato crop drove them to tragedy. The Irish people suffered from extreme hunger, which often led to illness. No moment in Irish history is more saturated with the consciousness of the loss than that of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. Not only the sheer number of lives needlessly lost as a result of the subsistence crisis that followed the failure of the potato crop, but furthermore the deliberate use of famine relief projects, eviction, and emigration under duress to eradicate ways of life that had been recalcitrant to capitalism, mark the Famine as a colonial catastrophe.
It was in France that the notion of a ’subsistence crisis’ was first formulated by Meuvret in 1946, and greatly popularised by Goubert in 1960 through his influential study of Beauvais and the Beauvaisis. The theory of subsistence crises, in its contemporary guise, was first formulated by Meuvret in 1946. As an economic historian and specialist in price history Meuvret was struck by the coincidence between high prices and the increase in the number of deaths in the region of Gien in 1709-10. He then posed the problem of the nature of demographic crises, very tentatively at first, since he thought it was a hopeless quest to try to distinguish statistically between phenomena that were so closely associated: namely, mortality through simple inanition; mortality caused by disease, though attributable to malnutrition; and mortality by contagion, which in turn was linked to the scarcity that helped both spawn diseases and spread them through the migration of poor beggars.
What Subsistence crisis took place in French Revolution http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_subsistence_crisis_that_rose_prior_to_French_Revolution
An example is the European subsistence crisis of 1315-1317.
Anothter example of a subsistence crisis is the Great Famine in Ireland. By the mid-1800s, the Irish had been living for decades in extreme poverty, but the repeated and total failure of the potato crop drove them to tragedy. The Irish people suffered from extreme hunger, which often led to illness. No moment in Irish history is more saturated with the consciousness of the loss than that of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. Not only the sheer number of lives needlessly lost as a result of the subsistence crisis that followed the failure of the potato crop, but furthermore the deliberate use of famine relief projects, eviction, and emigration under duress to eradicate ways of life that had been recalcitrant to capitalism, mark the Famine as a colonial catastrophe.