Author: Henri Pirenne
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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An account of the historical evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the 15th century.
Author: James Westfall Thompson
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Author: Steven Epstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052188036X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book examines the most important themes in European social and economic history from the beginning of growth around the year 1000 to the first wave of global exchange in the 1490s. These five hundred years witnessed the rise of economic systems, such as capitalism, and the social theories that would have a profound influence on the rest of the world over the next five centuries. The basic story, the human search for food, clothing, and shelter in a world of violence and scarcity, is a familiar one, and the work and daily routines of ordinary women and men are the focus of this volume. Surveying the full extent of Europe, from east to west and north to south, Steven Epstein illuminates family life, economic and social thought, war, technologies, and other major themes while giving equal attention to developments in trade, crafts, and agriculture. The great waves of famine and then plague in the fourteenth century provide the centerpiece of a book that seeks to explain the causes of Europe's uneven prosperity and its response to catastrophic levels of death. Epstein also sets social and economic developments within the context of the Christian culture and values that were common across Europe and that were in constant tension with Muslims, Jews, and dissidents within its boundaries and the great Islamic and Tartar states on its frontier.
Author: Gerald A. Hodgett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136583076
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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This excellent and concise summary of the social and economic history of Europe in the Middle Ages examines the changing patterns and developments in agriculture, commerce, trade, industry and transport that took place during the millennium between the fall of the Roman Empire and the discovery of the New World. After outlining the trends in demography, prices, rent, and wages and in the patterns of settlement and cultivation, the author also summarizes the basic research done in the last twenty-five years in many aspects of the social and economic history of medieval Europe, citing French, German and Italian works as well as English. Significantly, this study surveys the present state of discussion on a number of on unresolved issues and controversies, and in some areas suggests common sense answers. Some of the problems of economic growth, or the lack of it, are looked at in the light of current theories in sociology and economic thought. This classic text, first published in 1972, makes a useful and interesting general introduction for students of medieval and economic history.
Author: Henri Pirenne
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Jean Henri Otto Lucien Marie Pirenne
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Author: Norman John Greville Pounds
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
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A clear and readable account of the development of the European economy and its infrastructure from the second century to 1500. Professor Pounds provides a balanced view of the many controversies within the subject, and he has a particular gift for bringing a human dimension to its technicalities. He deals with continental Europe as a whole, including an unusually rich treatment of Eastern Europe. For this welcome new edition -- the first in twenty years -- text and bibliography have been reworked and updated throughout, and the book redesigned and reset.
Author: Michael Moïssey Postan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520023253
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Author: Gerald Augustus John Hodgett
Publisher:
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Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Eliyahu Ashtor
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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