Carlo M. Cipolla

Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700 (Third Edition) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Third Edition includes substantial revisions and new material throughout the book that will secure its standing as the most useful history available of preindustrial Europe.


During the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, the stage was set for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society. An economic historian of international reputation, Carlo M. Cipolla explores the process that made this transformation possible. In so doing, he sheds light not only on the economic factors but on the culture surrounding them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393253658
• Artikelnr.: 59590862

Autorenporträt

Carlo M. Cipolla was the author of Before the Industrial Revolution and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He died in 2000.

Inhaltsangabe

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