Crisis and Development: An Ecological Case Study of the Forest of Arden 1570-1674

by Victor Skipp

During the Tudor and Stuart periods the population of England doubled, increasing from perhaps 2.5 to 5 million. When the total had last reached the 4-5 million mark, in the early fourteenth century, there had been a sharp Malthusian cut-back. How then did the country manage to break through this crucial barrier at its second attempt? Victor Skipp throws light on this question by constructing a detailed model of demographic, economic and social change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052108850X
• ISBN13: 9780521088503
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"