The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West

The Field and the Forge offers an innovative approach to the pre-industrial history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin from Roman times through to the Industrial Revolution. This wide-ranging analysis demonstrates how technology changed the scope of state and empire building, and explores why this scope was realized in the ancient world rather than the medieval west. This work not only considers the who and what of history, but provides a clear demonstration of why things happened.

Business & Money

Landers, John

Economics

Oxford University Press

The Field and the Forge offers an innovative approach to the pre-industrial history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin from Roman times through to the Industrial Revolution. This wide-ranging analysis demonstrates how technology changed the scope of state and empire building, and explores why this scope was realized in the ancient world rather than the medieval west. This work not only considers the who and what of history, but provides a clear demonstration of why things happened.

Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of Mortality, parish registers and Quaker vital registers, and employs the techniques of family reconstitution and aggregative analysis. The data are analysed within the framework of a structural model of mortality change comprising the proximate determinants of exposure to, and resistance against, infectious agents on the the part of populations. Within this framework a model is established describing the specific demographic and epidemiological characteristics of early modern metropolitan centres. The evidence indicates that mortality in London was much higher than in other settlements in England for most of the period, but declined steeply in the later eighteenth century. This apparently reflected changes in exposure to infections.

Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Demographic History of London, 1670–1830 (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 20)

History

Europe

Cambridge University Press

Robert J. Dean, William E. Anderson, James E. Taulman, Landers, John, Dean, Robert J.

Broadman Comments 1998-1999: 52 User-Friendly Bible Study Lessons by Robert J. Dean (1998-06-01)

Religion & Spirituality

Dean, Robert J.

William E. Anderson

James E. Taulman

Robert J.Dean

Christian Books & Bibles

Broadman&Holman Publishers

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