The Field And The Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West - Brossura

Landers, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199279578 ISBN 13: 9780199279579

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2009

Riassunto

The Field and the Forge offers an innovative approach to the pre-industrial history of Europe and the Mediterranean basin from Roman times through to the Industrial Revolution. This wide-ranging analysis demonstrates how technology changed the scope of state and empire building, and explores why this scope was realized in the ancient world rather than the medieval west. This work not only considers the who and what of history, but provides a clear demonstration of why things happened.

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Recensione

Review from previous editionHistory Today: Book of the Year Prize: Highly Commended

Thoughtful and wide-ranging account that ably integrates economic and political circumstances in order to assess the causes, extent and limitations of development in the pre-industrial West. (History Today)

... explores the important inter-connections and parallels between economic and military history in a thoughtful way, and it will stimulate future discussion. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

... has a wide intellectual scope, as it employs a range of models and theories, and is based on data drawn from many sources. Historians of all varieties will benefit from its ideas, but practitioners of economic and military history will find it especially useful. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

... formidable and thought-provoking book. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

Landers's wide-ranging analysis of the links between economic and military change is thoughtful and provocative, with valuable discussions of the financial and demographic impacts of war. (Peter Clark, Times Literary Supplement)

[a] wide ranging study of the economic and military changes in the West from the ancient period to the start of the nineteenth century. (Peter Clark, Times Literary Supplement)

His book is an ambitoius and wide ranging synthesis that is both thoughtful and thought provoking. (The American Historical Review)

Contenuti

• 1: Introduction - Time, Space, and Population
• Part I: The Organic Economy and Demographic Space
• 2: Population Dynamics
• 3: Production and Technology
• 4: The Means of Transport
• 5: Trade and Traffic
• Part II: Military Technology
• 6: Battlefields before Gunpowder
• 7: The Gunpowder Revolution
• 8: Military Capital: Oars, Sails, Walls, and Guns
• Part III: Force, Power, and Space
• 9: War and the Organic Economy
• 10: Power and Space I: Expanding Control
• 11: Power and Space II: Maintaining Control
• Part IV: War, Population, and Resources
• 12: The Cost of War: Manpower and Resources
• 13: Population, Production, and Technology
• 14: The Cost of War: Mortality and Population Loss
• 15: Spending, Taxing, and Borrowing
• 16: Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Appendixes

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199279578
• ISBN 13: 9780199279579
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 456
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile