Author: Pauline GreggPublisher: New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 1974 [i.e. 1976]
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Black Death to Industrial Revolution
Author: Pauline GreggPublisher: New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 1974 [i.e. 1976]
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
BLACK DEATH TO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Author: Pauline GREGGThe British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective
Author: Robert C. AllenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521868270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Black Death to Industrial Revolution: a Social and Economic History of England
Author: Paulins GreggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age
Author: Beatrice GottliebPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198023766
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
During the last few decades the study of the family has flourished, and in the process many myths about what life was like two or three centuries ago have been debunked. For example, contrary to popular belief, we now know that most women in the preindustrial West did not marry before they were twenty-five. Most households consisted of no more than four or five people, usually including unrelated young people working as servants. And perhaps most surprising of all, multigenerational households were not very common. Pulling together much fascinating information about the family in the preindustrial Western world, Beatrice Gottlieb presents every aspect of this rich subject with clarity and fairness. Her generously illustrated book deals with the households of the wealthy and the poor, courtship and marriage, the care and training of children, and the bonds (and strains) of kinship. The matter of inheritance receives special attention, as it played a substantial role in a world permeated by rank and status, and its importance gave the family a peculiar social and economic significance. With a focus on the ordinary people whose everyday lives strike a responsive chord in all of us, as well as brief appearances by famous people and important events in history--Henry VIII's divorce, Benjamin Franklin's apprenticeship to his brother, and Mary Wollstonecraft's death in childbirth--this remarkable, eminently readable work brings to vivid life the wives and husbands, servants and masters, children and parents of a not too distant past.
In the Wake of the Plague
Author: Norman F. CantorPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476797749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, taking millions of lives. The author draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.
The English Economy Following the Black Death
Author: Judith R. GelmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Health, Wealth and Population in the Early Days of the Industrial Revolution
Author: Mabel Craven BuerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Black Death
Author: Therese HarasymiwPublisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1502660792
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept around the globe, people have looked to the past for other examples of deadly disease outbreaks. In the mid-14th century, an outbreak of bubonic plague, or the “Black Death,” killed more than 25 million Europeans within a five-year span. Through informative maps, critical-thinking questions, and in-depth sidebars, readers learn the similarities and the vast differences between the Black Death, the 2020 pandemic, and other disease outbreaks in history. Understanding past pandemics enables readers to keep a level head when evaluating current and future outbreaks, reducing panic and leading to positive, effective solutions.
The Black Death in Egypt and England
Author: Stuart J. BorschPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292783175
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Throughout the fourteenth century AD/eighth century H, waves of plague swept out of Central Asia and decimated populations from China to Iceland. So devastating was the Black Death across the Old World that some historians have compared its effects to those of a nuclear holocaust. As countries began to recover from the plague during the following century, sharp contrasts arose between the East, where societies slumped into long-term economic and social decline, and the West, where technological and social innovation set the stage for Europe's dominance into the twentieth century. Why were there such opposite outcomes from the same catastrophic event? In contrast to previous studies that have looked to differences between Islam and Christianity for the solution to the puzzle, this pioneering work proposes that a country's system of landholding primarily determined how successfully it recovered from the calamity of the Black Death. Stuart Borsch compares the specific cases of Egypt and England, countries whose economies were based in agriculture and whose pre-plague levels of total and agrarian gross domestic product were roughly equivalent. Undertaking a thorough analysis of medieval economic data, he cogently explains why Egypt's centralized and urban landholding system was unable to adapt to massive depopulation, while England's localized and rural landholding system had fully recovered by the year 1500.