
Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780393311983
Publication Date: 03/17/1994
Edition Description: Third Edition
The Third Edition includes substantial revisions and new material throughout the book that will secure its standing as the most useful history available of preindustrial Europe. During the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, the stage was set for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society. An economic historian of international reputation, Carlo M. Cipolla explores the process that made this transformation possible. In so doing, he sheds light not only on the economic factors but on the culture surrounding them.
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