John Landers (, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford)

The Field and the Forge

Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-Industrial West

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Produktbeschreibung

'The Field and the Forge' offers an innovative approach to the pre-industrial history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin from Roman times through to the Industrial Revolution. It not only considers the who and what of history, but provides a clear demonstration of why things happened.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 836g
• ISBN-13: 9780199249169
• ISBN-10: 0199249164
• Artikelnr.: 22095936

Autorenporträt

JOHN LANDERS, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction - Time, Space, and Population
Section I: The Organic Economy and Demographic Space
2: Population Dynamics
3: Production and Technology
4: The Means of Transport
5: Trade and Traffic
Section II: Military Technology
6: Battlefields before Gunpowder
7: Gunpowder Revolution
8: Military Capital
Section III: Force, Power, and Space
9: War and the Organic Economy
10: Power and Space I: Expanding Control
11: Power and Space II: Maintaining Control
Section IV: War, Population, and Resources
12: The Cost of War: Manpower and Resources
13: Population, Production, and Technology
14: The Cost of War: Mortality and Population Loss
15: Spending, Taxing, and Borrowing
16: Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendixes