An introduction to economic history / Christine Rider.
By: Rider, Christine.
Material type: BookPublisher: 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: 330.9Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 330.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00069953 |
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