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050			_aHC 240 .C57 1976
100			_aCipolla, Carlo M. _eauthor
245		0	_aBefore the industrial revolution / _cCarlo M. Cipolla
260			_aLondon, United Kingdom : _bMethuen & Co. Ltd., _cc1976
300			_axiv, 326 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aChapter One. Demand -- Chapter Two. The Factors of Production -- Chapter Three. Productivity and Production -- Chapter Four. The Urban Revolution: The Communes -- Chapter Five. Population: Trends and Plagues -- Chapter Six. Technology -- Chapter Seven. Enterprise, Credit, and Money -- Chapter Eight. Production, Incomes and Consumption -- Chapter Nine. The Emergence of the Modern Age -- Chapter Ten. The Changing Balance of Economic Power in Europe.
520			_aThe world in which we live and the problems we face would be unintelligible without reference to that grandiose change which we label the Industrial Revolution. In its turn, the Industrial Revolution was but the ultimate phase, the historically coherent outcome of a development which took place in Europe during the first seven centuries of our millenium. The purpose of this book is precisely that of offering an up-to-date, documented synthesis of those human developments from which our world, with its blessings and its evils, eventually emerged. The book addresses itself to both the student and the general reader; although fundamentally focused on social and economic problems, its approach is essentially interdisciplinary. This double ambivalence may help to explain some of its traits.
650			_aEUROPE -- ECONOMIC CONDITION
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