Before the Industrial Revolution - European Society and Economy 1000-1700

List of contents

Part One A Static Approximation 1. Demand 2. The Factors of Production 3. Productivity and Production Part Two Toward a Dynamic Description 4. The Urban Revolution: The Communes 5. Population: Trends and Plagues 6. Technology 7. Enterprise, Credit, and Money 8. Production, Incomes and Consumption: 1000-1500 9. The Emergence of the Modern Age 10. The Changing Balance of Economic Power in Europe

About the author

Carlo M. Cipolla

Summary

In this classic work Cipolla explores the slow but complex process of development that transformed Europe from its relatively weak position in AD 1000 into the highly dynamic and powerful society of 1700.

Additional text

'A wide-ranging approach to historical problems and ideas that both stimulates and illuminates.' - Times Literary Supplement

Product details

• Authors: CIPOLLA, Carlo M. Cipolla, Professor Carlo M Cipolla, Cipolla Carlo M.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138156784
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15678-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General