War and Rural Life in the Early Modern Low Countries

In addition to famine and disease, war had a considerable impact on rural society in early modern Europe. Myron Gutmann studies this impact through a systematic analysis of military, economic, and demographic variables as they affected the Basse-Meuse area in Eastern Belgium and the Netherlands between 1620 and 1750.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on...