An Economic History of Western Europe, 1945-1964.

1969 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 686
Author(s):  
Rondo Cameron ◽  
M. M. Postan
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Migration and World History: Reaching a New Frontier

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Lucassen
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Migration History ◽  
Significant Phenomenon ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

Migration history has made some major leaps forward in the last fifteen years or so. An important contribution was Leslie Page Moch's Moving Europeans, published in 1992, in which she weaves the latest insights in migration history into the general social and economic history of western Europe. Using Charles Tilly's typology of migration patterns and his ideas on the process of proletarianization since the sixteenth century, Moch skilfully integrates the experience of human mobility in the history of urbanization, labour relations, (proto)industrialization, demography, family history, and gender relations. Her state-of-the-art overview has been very influential, not least because it fundamentally criticizes the modernization paradigm of Wilbur Zelinsky and others, who assumed that only in the nineteenth century, as a result of industrialization and urbanization, migration became a significant phenomenon. Instead, she convincingly argues that migration was a structural aspect of human life. Since then many new studies have proved her point and refined her model.

Twelfth-Century Italian Prices: Food and Clothing in Pisa and Venice

1983 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 381-403
Author(s):  
Louise Buenger Robbert
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
American Philosophical Society ◽  
Cost Of Living ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Material ◽  
The Cost

Seventy-three years ago pioneer American medievalist Dana Carlton Munro (1911: 504) delivered a paper in Philadelphia to the American Philosophical Society entitled “The Cost of Living in the Twelfth Century.” He threw down the gauntlet by concluding that in this paper an attempt has been made to set forth only a few of the facts, merely to indicate the nature and importance of the problem. Every one of the subjects here discussed is susceptible of elaboration, and needs to be worked out in detail for each country of Western Europe and each period in the twelfth century. The material is voluminous…. This field, as a whole, offers a good opportunity for many monographs, and such work is essential before we can understand the economic history of the century which was most important in the advance of western Europe.This article takes up this challenge with new material on the cost of living in Italy in the twelfth century.

Culture Makes All the Difference

Itinerario ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Om Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Gross Domestic Product ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Poor Country ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
History Of ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Difference ◽  
State Of Affairs

David Landes addresses in his latest book, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some so Poor (London 1998), an issue at the very heart of the global economic history of the latter half of the millennium now coming to a close. This issue is an analysis of the circumstances that have brought into existence a world characterised by a fast-growing disparity in economic performance and levels of living across its different segments. According to Angus Maddison, one hundred and fifty years ago the gap in mean per capita share of gross domestic product between the richest and poorest global regions, namely Western Europe and Africa, was probably three to one. Today this gap between a rich country such as Switzerland and a poor country such as Mozambique is a mind boggling four hundred to one. How this state of affairs has come about is the basic question asked by Landes.

The Social and Economic History of Italy and Western Europe, 700-1500.

1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 617
Author(s):  
Michael Prestwich ◽  
David Herlihy
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

An Economic History of Western Europe, 1945-1964

1968 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
J. R. T. Hughes ◽  
M. M. Postan
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
History Of
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