Atlas of Material Life: Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century

Vries-Baaijens; Peer Vries

doi:10.24415/9789400603929

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright Year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-354-4
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0392-9
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Language: English
Pages: 346
Product Type: Monograph

1. TABLE OF CONTENTS No access
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION No access Pages 9 - 16
1. Sizes No access
2. Physical geography No access
3. Weather and climate No access
4. The tyranny of distance No access
5. The variability and unpredictability of life in the pre-industrial world No access
6. Population and population density No access
7. Life expectancy, health and disease No access
8. Violence No access
1. Human labour power No access
2. The labour power of animals No access
3. Firewood No access
4. Peat No access
5. Coal No access
6. Gunpowder No access
7. Watermills No access
8. Windmills No access
9. Water and wind and their role in transport No access
1. Land No access
2. Animals No access
3. Animal manure and night soil No access
4. Wood No access
5. Metals: iron and bullion No access
6. Frontiers and ghost acreages No access
1. The agricultural labour force, the share of agriculture in GDP and urbanisation No access
2. The importance of food in budgets No access
3. Agricultural productivity No access
4. Agricultural systems: China’s rice economy No access
5. Agricultural systems: Great Britain’s wheat economy No access
6. What about Japan? No access
1. 1. Intercontinental migration No access
  2. Slave trades and the importance of other forms of ‘coerced migration’. No access
  3. The demographic impact of European overseas migration No access
  4. Chinese and Japanese overseas emigrations No access
2. The Columbian Exchange: flora, fauna and diseases No access
3. 1. Monetary systems No access
  2. Technologies and relative scarcities No access
4. 1. A modern world-system? No access
  2. A sinocentric alternative to Eurocentrism? No access
  3. Intercontinental trade as an almost entirely European affair No access
1. 1. Positive checks No access
  2. Preventive checks: The (Western) European marriage pattern and East Asian alternatives No access
  3. Sustainability in Tokugawa Japan No access
2. 1. Malthusian constraints? No access
  2. Efflorescences No access
  3. Modern economic growth before the Industrial Revolution? The case of Song China, 976-1279 as compared to developments under the Ming and Qing No access
  4. Modern economic growth before the Industrial Revolution? The case of the Dutch Republic during its Golden Age No access
3. 1. GDP, wages and incomes No access
  2. Inequality, poverty and famine No access
  3. Consumption No access
1. Increased production and productivity in agriculture No access
2. Industrious revolutions No access
3. Increased investment and (micro-)innovations No access
4. Improved human capital No access
5. A better measure of reality No access
6. 1. Transport over land No access
  2. Transport over water No access
  3. Shipping on the open seas No access
1. Specialisation and market extension No access
2. Global market integration No access
3. 1. A decline of the commons? No access
  2. A decline of the guilds? No access
  3. A rise of free labour? No access
  4. Capitalists, capitalism and the state No access
4. 1. State formation and state capacity No access
  2. Military strength No access
  3. Empire building versus imperial disintegration No access
1. 1. New energy and new technology No access
  2. Railways and steam shipping No access
  3. The wider impact of the new economic regime No access
  4. Great Divergence and fossil-fuel ghost acreage No access
2. 1. Migration during the Great Divergence No access
  2. Great Divergence, import ghost acreage and Great Specialisation No access
3. Different trajectories, change and continuity No access
4. 1. The case of Great Britain No access
  2. Did the Dutch Republic, Qing China or Tokugawa Japan have sufficient financial resources to industrialise? No access
REVIEW AND REFLECTION No access Pages 319 - 322
BIBLIOGRAPHY No access Pages 323 - 344