From Warfare to Wealth by Mark Dincecco PAPERBACK 9781316612590

From Warfare to Wealth\nby Mark Dincecco\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Mark Dincecco\nTitle: From Warfare to Wealth\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political economy\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781316612590\nISBN-10: 1316612597\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe economic rise of Europe over the past millennium represents a major human breakthrough. To explain this phenomenon, this book highlights a counterintuitive yet central feature of Europe''s historical landscape: warfare. Historical warfare inflicted numerous costs on rural populations. Security was a traditional function of the city. To mitigate the high costs of conflict in the countryside, rural populations migrated to urban centers. Over time, the city''s histor.