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The field and the forge : population, production, and power in the pre-industrial West /

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Based on an original synthesis of 'structural' economic and demographic history with traditionally 'event-driven' political and military history, this text offers a new approach to the pre-industrial past in Europe and the Mediterranean basin from the Roman Republic to the fall o...

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Main Author: Landers, John, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Technological innovations > Economic aspects > Europe > History.
Natural resources > Europe > History.
Power resources > Europe > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Europe > History.
Civilization, Western > History.
Economic history.
Europe > Population > Economic aspects > History.
Europe > Economic conditions.
Europe > History, Military.
Innovations > Aspect économique > Europe > Histoire.
Ressources naturelles > Europe > Histoire.
Ressources énergétiques > Europe > Histoire.
Civilisation occidentale > Histoire.
Histoire économique.
Europe > Population > Aspect économique > Histoire.
Europe > Conditions économiques.
Europe > Histoire militaire.
Civilization, Western
Economic history
Natural resources
Population > Economic aspects
Power resources
Power (Social sciences)
Technological innovations > Economic aspects
Europe
Electronic books.
History
Military history
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Based on an original synthesis of 'structural' economic and demographic history with traditionally 'event-driven' political and military history, this text offers a new approach to the pre-industrial past in Europe and the Mediterranean basin from the Roman Republic to the fall of Napoleon.
Physical Description:1 online resource (454 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780199279579
0199279578
9780191719448
0191719447