Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe - From the Thirteenth to twentieth centuries (Hardcover, New Ed)

Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and his scholarship and approach have had a decisive effect on the orientation of economic and agricultural history.
Using data on population, wages and rents from England, France, Germany and the Low Countries, and, on occasion, from Italy, Scandinavia and Poland, here Professor Abel demonstrates the striking similarity in the overall economic development for all these areas. He also analyses, the short-term fluctuations that have affected agricultural development within this economic framework, and is able to show the broad significance of the shape of the late medieval depression, the scale of the desertions of villages that accompanies it, and the implications of the sixteenth century price revolution.
The book's importance lies in tracing the long-term trends that have characterized European economic development since the High Middle Ages, and as such it has made an invaluable contribution to all comparative analyses of different Western European countries since it was first published in 1980.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Economic History
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	April 2006
Authors:	Wilhelm Abel
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	384
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-37698-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
LSN:	0-415-37698-X
Barcode:	9780415376983

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