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Title The birth of modern Europe [electronic resource] : culture and economy, 1400-1800 : essays in honor of Jan de Vries / edited by Laura Cruz and Joel Mokyr.

Imprint Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description xvi, 259 p. : ill., maps.
Series Library of economic history, 1877-3206 ; v. 2
Library of economic history ; v. 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Jan de Vries and his contributions / Joel Mokyr -- The birth of modern Europe : determining the margins of the work of Jan de Vries / Laura Cruz -- The tobacco nation : English tobacco dealers and pipe-makers in Rotterdam, 1620-1650 / Wim Klooster -- The market for architecture in Holland, 1500-1815 / Maarten Prak -- From shelf to maps : reconstructing bookselling networks in the seventeenth century Netherlands / Laura Cruz -- Hoare's Bank in the eighteenth century / Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth -- Modest households and globally traded textiles : evidence from Amsterdam household inventories / Anne E. McCants -- Britain's Asian century : porcelain and global history in the long eighteenth century / Maxine Berg -- Repeat migration between Europe and the United States, 1870-1914 / Drew Keeling -- The Industrious Revolution and labour force participation of rural women : evidence from mid-nineteenth-century France / George Grantham and Franque Grimard -- The Industrious Revolution in America / Gavin Wright.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject De Vries, Jan, 1943 Nov. 14-
Social change -- Europe -- History.
City and town life -- Europe -- History.
City and town life -- Netherlands -- History.
Europe -- Economic conditions.
Europe -- History -- 1492-
Netherlands -- Economic conditions.
Western countries -- Economic conditions.
Europe -- Commerce.
Netherlands -- Commerce.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author De Vries, Jan, 1943 Nov. 14-
Cruz, Laura, 1969-
Mokyr, Joel.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004189348 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9004189343 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9789004189355 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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