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 CenturiesE. 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 |
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