When marrying depended on the price of bread. About fifty years without significant food shortages: This book highlights how extraordinary such a period is. The hunger history of Tyrol serves as an example for other regions, for similar times of need and causes of scarcity. We learn, among other things, that rising population numbers do not necessarily lead to rising grain prices, that hunger and war are directly related, and that extreme weather conditions and natural disasters have occurred in the past as well. The first hunger history of Tyrol! With photos, facsimiles, graphics, and tables.