The Birth of Modern Europe
Culture and Economy, 1400-1800. Essays in Honor of Jan de Vries
Biographical note
Laura Cruz is an Associate Professor of History at Western Carolina University and Director of the Coulter Faculty Center. She currently serves as the President of the Society for Netherlandic History. Her research focuses on the economic culture of the Golden Age Netherlands, as exemplified in her recent book, The Paradox of Prosperity (Oak Knoll, 2009).
Joel Mokyr is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University and Sackler Professor (by special appointment) at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv. He specializes in economic history and the economics of technological change and population change and has authored over 80 books and articles on these subjects. His most recent work, The Enlightened Economy, was published in 2009 by Yale University Press and Penguin Books.
Joel Mokyr is the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University and Sackler Professor (by special appointment) at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv. He specializes in economic history and the economics of technological change and population change and has authored over 80 books and articles on these subjects. His most recent work, The Enlightened Economy, was published in 2009 by Yale University Press and Penguin Books.
Readership
All those interested in the economic history, early modern Europe, the history of consumption and material culture, and Netherlandic history, as well as economists, art/architecture historians, and sociologists.
Reviews
"These are worthy pieces in a worthy cause." Paul M. Hohenberg, emeritus Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Jan de Vries and his Contributions, Joel Mokyr
The Birth of Modern Europe: Determining the Margins of the Work of Jan de Vries, Laura Cruz
The Tobacco Nation: English Tobacco Dealers and Pipe-Makers in Rotterdam, 1620- 1650, Wim Klooster
The Market for Architecture in Holland, 1500-1815, Maarten Prak
From Shelf to Maps: Reconstructing Bookselling Networks in the Seventeenth Century Netherlands, Laura Cruz
Hoare´s Bank in the Eighteenth Century, Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth
Modest Households and Globally Traded Textiles:Evidence from Amsterdam Household Inventories, Anne McCants
Britain’s Asian Century: Porcelain and Global History in the Long Eighteenth Century, Maxine Berg
Repeat Migration between Europe and the United States, 1870-1914, Drew Keeling
The Industrious Revolution and Labour Force Participation of Rural Women Evidence from Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, George Grantham and Franque Grimard
The Industrious Revolution in America, Gavin Wright
Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Jan de Vries and his Contributions, Joel Mokyr
The Birth of Modern Europe: Determining the Margins of the Work of Jan de Vries, Laura Cruz
The Tobacco Nation: English Tobacco Dealers and Pipe-Makers in Rotterdam, 1620- 1650, Wim Klooster
The Market for Architecture in Holland, 1500-1815, Maarten Prak
From Shelf to Maps: Reconstructing Bookselling Networks in the Seventeenth Century Netherlands, Laura Cruz
Hoare´s Bank in the Eighteenth Century, Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth
Modest Households and Globally Traded Textiles:Evidence from Amsterdam Household Inventories, Anne McCants
Britain’s Asian Century: Porcelain and Global History in the Long Eighteenth Century, Maxine Berg
Repeat Migration between Europe and the United States, 1870-1914, Drew Keeling
The Industrious Revolution and Labour Force Participation of Rural Women Evidence from Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, George Grantham and Franque Grimard
The Industrious Revolution in America, Gavin Wright
Bibliography
Index
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