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Dearth and the English revolution: the harvest crisis of 1647–50

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This article reconstructs the nature and scale of dearth in the late 1640s, emphasizing the coincidence of economic distress with constitutional crisis. It reconsiders the parish register evidence for subsistence crisis; examines the responses of central and local government; analyses the role of popular agency, especially though petitioning campaigns, in prompting reluctant magistrates to regulate the grain markets along lines stipulated by the late Elizabethan and early Stuart dearth orders, which had not been proclaimed since 1630; and accordingly suggests that the late 1640s represents a missing link in the historiography of responses to harvest failure.

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  • Steve Hindle, 2008. "Dearth and the English revolution: the harvest crisis of 1647–50," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 61(s1), pages 64-98, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ehsrev:v:61:y:2008:i:s1:p:64-98
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00415.x
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    1. Appleby, Andrew B., 1979. "Grain Prices and Subsistence Crises in England and France, 1590–1740," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 39(4), pages 865-887, December.
    2. R. B. Outhwaite, 1981. "Dearth and Government Intervention in English Grain Markets, 1590–1700," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 34(3), pages 389-406, August.
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