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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.

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.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; 3rd edition (March 17, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393311988
ISBN-13: 978-0393311983
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
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storia del lavoro, catastrophic mortality, normal mortality, negative production, storica italiana

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Low Countries, Industrial Revolution, Renaissance Europe, Gregory King, Dark Ages, United States, West Indies, Far East, Republic of Venice, Dutch East India Company, Appendix Table, Black Death, British Isles, Commune of Bologna, Hanseatic League, North America, United Provinces, Atlantic Europe, Giovanni Villani, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Middle East, Nicolaes Witsen, Nombre de Dios, Samuel Pepys, Vera Cruz

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Publshed a number of years ago and written by a distinguished economic historian, this is a useful overview of preindustrial Europe. Cipolla divides the book into 2 parts. The first part is a broad synchronic description of the pre-industrial economy including demography, economy per se, trade, some social history, and technology. This is very much the picture of a predominantly rural society based largely on subsistence agriculture and laboring under Malthusian constraints. Cipolla stresses also that additonal burdens of epidemic disease, war, and weather often imposed stresses beyond the usual Malthusian limits. He is also quite clear on Medieval Europe as a relatively poor backwater compared with China or the Islamic Middle East at its apogee.

In the second part of the book, Cipolla points out some of the more dynamic features of pre-industrial Europe. These include the, by modern standards slow, but real improvements in technology, expansion of international trade, increasing urbanization and commerialization of European society, and its engagement in a major way with the great economic Eurasian centers of China, India, and the Middle East. Cipolla describes also how the major commercial loci of Europe changed over time, migrating from northern Italy to the Low Countries, and then to Britain. Cipolla touches on many of the important themes of European economic development in the early modern period preceding the Industrial Revolution. These include the importance of state competition and mercantilism-imperialism, the crucial role of silver from the Americas in facilitating trade with East Asia, the crucial role of European naval technology, the importance of education, and even the importance of the 17th century Scientific Revolution. While this is not a detailed history, Cipolla makes a number of shrewd comments on the fates of individual nations. He discusses, for example, the role of the Franco-Spanish wars in the decline of Northern Italy, why Spain failed to become a major economic power, and the relative de-industrialization of Southern Europe that followed the burgeoning of the Dutch and British economies. Generally quite readable.

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