Robert I. Rotberg, Theodore K. Rabb

Population and Economy

Population Adn History from the Traditional to the Modern World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays contribute not only to a richer understanding of the relationships in the past between population and economy, but also to a fuller appreciation of the circumstances that limited economic growth in preindustrial economies and with the train of events that led to the escape from these constraints with the industrial revolution.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Interdisciplinary History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780521310550
• ISBN-10: 0521310555
• Artikelnr.: 26334595

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Roger S. Schofield and E. Anthony Wrigley; 1. Through a glass
darkly: The Population History of England as an experiment in history Roger
S. Schofield; 2. Historical demography after The Population History of
England Michael Anderson; 3. English population, wages and prices:
1541-1913 Peter H. Lindert; 4. Population homeostasis and English
demographic history Ronald Lee; 5. The population and economy of the
pre-industrial Netherlands Jan de Vries; 6. Urban growth and agricultural
change: England and the continent in the early modern period E. Anthony
Wrigley; 7. Escaping from constraints: the industrial revolution in a
Malthusian context Brinley Thomas; 8. Time and space, hoofs and grain: the
seasonality of marriage in England Ann Kussmaul.