Bücher von Noble David Cook

In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises, including the plague, crop failure and famine following drought and locust infestation, an aborted uprising of the Moriscos, and bankruptcy. In this volume, Alexandra Parma Cook and Noble David Cook reconstruct daily life during this period.

Professor Cook estimates population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation ratios, and census projection. He also analyses the catastrophic population decline that resulted from contact with Europeans, and compares this experience with that of the coastal region and the Andean highlands.