Steppe to Europe

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• Publisher: The White Horse Press
• Year: 2013
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781912186396
• Topic: History
• Index: History

This book, a much-augmented translation of the author's original Hungarian version, is an account of Hungary's past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally-relevant research findings. Until now, there has been no environmental history in English of Hungary and the wider region from which the present country crystallised.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• 1. THE PRINCIPALS
• The Carpathian Basin
• The formation of the Hungarian people
• Synchronicity
• 2. CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENT
• Climatic changes in the Middle Ages
• Water and wetlands in the Carpathian Basin
• The forests of the Carpathian Basin at the time of the Hungarian Conquest
• Marches and hill country
• Hunting in Árpád-era Hungary
• Animal husbandry and agriculture in the Árpád Era
• Population of the Carpathian Basin in the Árpád Era
• Carpathian Basin settlements during the Árpád Era
• Spatial structure and administration in the Árpád Era
• Where next?
• 3. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
• Weather and Climate in the Late Middle Ages – the Little Ice Age
• Forests and forestry in Late Medieva l Hungary
• Hunting in late medieval Hungary
• Farming in late medieval Hungary
• Mining in late medieval Hungary
• The late medieval population of Hungary
• Towns and villages in medieval Hungary
• Spatial structure and government in late medieval Hungary
• Lights and shadows
• 4. THE OTTOMAN AGE
• The Little Ice Age
• Loss of forests during the Ottoman Wars
• Hunting in early modern Hungary
• Gardens in early modern Hungary
• Agriculture in Hungary in the time of the Ottoman Wars
• Mining in early modern Hungary
• The population of Hungary in the Early Modern age
• Towns and villages during the Ottoman Wars
• The administration of divided Hungary
• On the borderline
• 5. THE CENTURY IOF REBUILDING
• Climatic changes in the eighteenth century
• Eighteenth century water management in the Carpathian Basin
• Carpathian Basin forests in the eighteenth century
• Hunting in eighteenth century Hungary
• Agriculture in Hungary in the century of reconstruction
• Mining in Hungary in the eighteenth century
• Energy management in early modern Hungary
• Demographic changes in the eighteenth century
• Towns and villages in Hungary in the age of rebuilding
• Hungary in the Habsburg Monarchy
• The end of the traditional world
• EPILOGUE – NOTES FOR A FURTHER STUDY
• Bibliograph y
• The names of settle ments in the Carpathian Basin in various local languages
• Index
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