Jan de Vries - The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750 - History Book

Jan de Vries

The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 16001750Author(s): Jan de Vries\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521290500, 978-0521290500\nSynopsis\nBy relating economic changes to the political backdrop, The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, [tel] describes and analyzes the economic civilisation of Europe in the last epoch before the Industrial Revolution. The author makes a special effort to apply economic reasoning to the economic forces of the period and challenges some longstanding opinions about what was and was not important in explaining economic performance. The significance of this study rests in its identification of the ways a 'traditional' society developed its economy despite the absence of the obvious growth factors of the nineteenth century. The approach is consciously comparative: problems of interpretation are identified; research not yet available elsewhere is incorporated .