The World the Plague Made : the Black Death and the Rise of Europe / James Belich.

Frontmatter
Contents
Maps
Introduction: Plague Paradoxes
Prologue: Globalising Europe
Part I A Plague of Mysteries
Introduction
1 The Black Death and the Plague Era
2 The Origins and Dynamics of the Black Death
Part II Plague and Expansionism in Western Europe
Introduction
3 A Golden Age? Economy and Society in the Ear ly Plague Er a
4 Expansive Trades
5 Plague Revolutions?
6 Expansive Labour: Castas, Race Mothers, and Disposable Males
7 States, Interstates, and the European Expansion Kit
Part III Western Europe or West Eurasia?
8 Plague's Impact in the Muslim South
9 Early Modern Ming-Muslim Globalisation
10 Entwined Empires: The Genoese Paradox and Iberian Expansion
11 The Ottomans and the Great Diversion
12 The Dutch Puzzle and the Mobilisation of Eastern Europe
13 Muslim Colonial Empires
14 Plague and Russian Expansion
Part IV Expansion, Industry, and Empire
Introduction
15 Empire? What Empire? European Expansion to 1800
16 Plaguing Britain
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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