In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America. This "industrious revolution" is the context in which the economic acceleration associated with the Industrial Revolution took shape. This study explores the intellectual understanding of the new importance of consumer ...
Manufacturer: Cambridge University PressWritten By: Jan de Vries
This book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analyzed at fifty year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographic, and geographical models, de Vries illustrates patterns of urban growth, draws conclusions about the significance of migratory behavior, and shows the effects of urbanization on the history ...
Manufacturer: Harvard University PressWritten By: Jan De Vries