The birth of modern Europe : culture and economy, 1400-1800 : essays in honor of Jan de Vries / / edited by Laura Cruz and Joel Mokyr.

It seems undeniable that Jan de Vries has cast an indelible impression upon the field of early modern economic history. With his rejection of traditional models that left pre-industrial Europe with little to no role to play in modern development, de Vries’ work has laid claim to the rich significanc...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Library of economic history, v. 2
TeilnehmendeR:
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Library of economic history ; v. 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (275 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Jan de Vries and his contributions / Joel Mokyr
  • The birth of modern Europe : determining the margins of the work of Jan de Vries / Laura Cruz
  • The tobacco nation : English tobacco dealers and pipe-makers in Rotterdam, 1620-1650 / Wim Klooster
  • The market for architecture in Holland, 1500-1815 / Maarten Prak
  • From shelf to maps : reconstructing bookselling networks in the seventeenth century Netherlands / Laura Cruz
  • Hoare's Bank in the eighteenth century / Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth
  • Modest households and globally traded textiles : evidence from Amsterdam household inventories / Anne E. McCants
  • Britain's Asian century : porcelain and global history in the long eighteenth century / Maxine Berg
  • Repeat migration between Europe and the United States, 1870-1914 / Drew Keeling
  • The Industrious Revolution and labour force participation of rural women : evidence from mid-nineteenth-century France / George Grantham and Franque Grimard
  • The Industrious Revolution in America / Gavin Wright.