The economic and social impact of wars, diseases and other catastrophes in the Ribera del Júcar, Valencia (16th-18th centuries)

Authors

  • Tomàs Peris Albentosa Universitat de València

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/eha.2022.34.107-138

Keywords:

catastrophes, crises, diseases, army, wars, taxation

Abstract

A global analysis makes it possible, in the long-term, to perceive catastrophes not as specific impacts but as processes in which many ordinary episodes of low impact combine with a few extraordinary and some extreme events, which are those that monopolize the attention of historians. This perspective helps to show that the anthropic factor prevails over the natural component, i.e., the worst catastrophes are the result of economic and political causes.

Author Biography

Tomàs Peris Albentosa, Universitat de València

Mi trayectoria investigadora se ha centrado fundamentalmente en el aprovechamiento de las aguas, gestión hidráulica, huertas e historia agraria del territorio valenciano entre los siglos XVI y XVIII. Además, he investigado otros aspectos históricos, en especial sociales, en la comarca de la Ribera del Xúquer en la misma época. Finalmente, entre 1988 y 1999 publiqué diversos trabajos sobre Didáctica de la Historia, la mayor parte de ellos en colaboración con Encarna Gil Saura.
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Published

2022-11-30

Issue

No. 34 (2022): Catastrophes and Social Change

Section

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