The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire: Volume 4, The Economy of Expanding Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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E. E. Rich, C. H. Wilson
CUP Archive, 1967 - 674 pages
Examines the economic history of Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Contents

CHAPTER I
1
Demographic Recovery and Advance
20
A Century of Reverses
40
CHAPTER II
96
CONTENTS vii
148
Transport and Trade Routes
155
CHAPTER IV
220
CHAPTER V
275
The Slave Trade and National Rivalries
323
West Indian Sugar and Slavery
338
English and French Slave Trades
345
The North American Colonies
358
Labour and Rule in the Spice Islands
364
CHAPTER VII
374
By F P BRAUDEL Directeur du Centre de Recherches Historiques Professeur au Collège de France and F SPOONER Professor of Economic History ...
378
The Secular Trend
391

The Economic Effects of Crop Dispersal page
286
The Spice Trade
288
The Sugar Trade
289
The Tobacco Trade
293
The Beverages Trades
295
The Potato in Europe
299
CHAPTER VI
302
Slaves from West Africa
308
Slavery and Sugar
311
Indian and Negro in the Spanish Empire
314
Cycles and Cyclical Movements
430
Conclusions and a Summary of Explanations
442
Three zones of Europe defined by the presentday limits
457
Index of devaluation of moneys of account in terms of silver
463
Correlograms of grain prices in Udine 15861796
469
CHAPTER VIII
487
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
577
INDEX
617
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