Description
Book SynopsisA cogent economic analysis of why the Black Death devastated Egypt while it revitalized England.
Trade Review"I cannot think of a finer piece of work that I have read in comparative history...I suspect this work will quickly become a classic in its field and can serve as a model for the comparative study of the effects of the Black Death in other regions of the world." Uli Schamiloglu, Chair, Central Asian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison "This book is unique. It has no parallel in the field of pre-modern Middle Eastern history. More broadly, it represents the perceptive result of a study conceived on a scale that enables a set of persuasive comparisons between two major states of the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds. Nothing like this has been attempted so far. No scholar has made such creative use of available primary sources from Egypt." Carl F. Petry, Professor of History, Northwestern University
Table of Contents
- A Note on Transliteration
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Plague and Methodology
- Chapter 2. Mortality, Irrigation, and Landholders in Mamluk Egypt
- Chapter 3. The Impact of the Plagues on the Rural Economy of Egypt
- Chapter 4. The Impact of the Plagues on the Rural Economy of England
- Chapter 5. The Dinar Jayshi and Agrarian Output in England and Egypt
- Chapter 6. Prices and Wages: A Reevaluation
- Chapter 7. Conclusion
- Appendix. The Marginal Product of Labor Reconsidered
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
