The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-Industrial West
Language: English
Published by OUP Oxford, 2003
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'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. It not only considers the who and what of history, but provides a clear demonstration of why things happened. Num Pages: 456 pages, numerous tables and figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 3D; 3F; 3J; HBJD; JHBD; JHM; JP; JW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 844. . 2003. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-Industrial West
- Author
- Landers, John N.
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199249164
- ISBN 13
- 9780199249169
Existing accounts of organic economies emphasize their restricted potential to support economic and political development, but this volume also considers why so much potential remained unrealized. Endemic mass poverty curtailed demand, limiting incentives for investment and innovation, and keeping output growth below what was technologically possible. Resource shortages prevented rulers from establishing a fiscal apparatus capable of appropriating such resources as were physically available. But economic inefficiency also created a pool of under-utilized resources that could potentially be mobilized in pursuit of political power. The volume gives an innovative account of this potential - and why it was realized in the ancient world rather than the medieval west - together with a new analysis of the gunpowder revolution and the inability of rulers to meet the consequential costs within the confines of an organic economy.
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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)
... comprehensive and scholarly study. (Medium Aevum)
... an intriguing study ... Landers is unusually interdisciplinary in his approach. (Journal of Peace Research)
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