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The rise of the Western world a new economic history Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil)
- Thomas, Robert Paul, 1938-2023, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--Economic conditions.
- Europe.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1973
- Summary:
- First published in 1973, this is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader
- Contents:
- Preface
- Part One- Theory and Overview:
- The issue
- An Overview
- Part Two- 900-1500:
- Property Rights in Land and Man
- Economic Conditions at the End of the Early Middle Ages
- The High Middles Ages: A Frontier Movement
- Thirteenth-Century Europe
- The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
- Part Three- 1500-1700:
- Fiscal Policy and Property Rights
- The Early Modern Period
- France and Spain
- The Also-Rans
- The Netherlands and Successful Economic Growth
- England
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2012)
- Includes bibliographical references
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511819438
- 0511819439
- 9780521201711
- 0521201713
- OCLC:
- 783176748
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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