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An introduction to economic history / Christine Rider.

By: Rider, Christine.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cincinnati, OH : South-Western College Pub., c1995Description: xiii, 594 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0538847107.Subject(s): Economic history | Mercantile system | Industrial revolution | Capitalism | International economic relationsDDC classification: 330.9
Contents:
Part I: Precapitalist economies (Third century B.C. to fourteenth century A.D.) -- Part II: Europe in transition: The early development of capitalism 14th to 18th centuries) -- Part III: The industrial revolution (18th to early 20th centuries) -- Part IV: The maturing of industrial capitalism (19th and 20th centuries) -- Part V: The internationalization of market capitalism.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A very readable introduction to world economic history employing an international approach that spans feudalism and the development of modern capitalism in different developing economics. This text takes a narrative cause-effect approach rather than an analytical one.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Precapitalist economies (Third century B.C. to fourteenth century A.D.) -- Part II: Europe in transition: The early development of capitalism 14th to 18th centuries) -- Part III: The industrial revolution (18th to early 20th centuries) -- Part IV: The maturing of industrial capitalism (19th and 20th centuries) -- Part V: The internationalization of market capitalism.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Part 1 Precapitalist Economics (Third Century B.C. Tofourteenth Century A.D
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Feudalism in Europe
  • 3 Towns in the Feudal Period
  • Part 2 Europe in Transition: The Earlydevelopment of Capitalism (14th-18th Centuries
  • 4 The Dissolution of Feudalism
  • 5 Protestantism and the ""New"" Classes
  • 6 Mercantilism: Internal Aspects
  • 7 Mercantilism:External Aspects
  • 8 Changes in England
  • Part 3 The Industrial Revolution (18th To Early 20th Centuries)
  • 9 Agriculture
  • 10 The Industrial R

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