Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Renard, Georges François, 1847-1930.

Title Life and work in modern Europe : XVth to XVIIIth centuries / G. Renard & G. Weulersse ; translated by Margaret Richards
Published London : Routledge, 1996

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvi, 395 pages) : illustrations
Series European civilization
The History of civilization (Routledge)
European civilization
History of civilization (Routledge)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION: THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ERA (FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES); CHAPTER 1: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL; 1. SPAIN; 2. PORTUGAL; CHAPTER II: THE NETHERLANDS; 1. THE SPANISH (LATER AUSTRIAN) NETHERLANDS; 2. THE UNITED PROVINCES; CHAPTER III: ENGLAND; I. TRADE; 1. FOREIGN TRADE; 2. INTERNAL TRADE; 3. THE COMMERCIAL ARISTOCRACY; II. INDUSTRY; 1. INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS; 2. SKETCH OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; 3. TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS; 4. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT INDUSTRIAL CLASSES
A. the aristocracy of labourb. condition of the ordinary workmen:; iii. agriculture; 1. markets and taxation; 2. agricultural production; a. capital; b. technical improvements; 3. agricultural classes; chapter iv: france; i. commerce; 1. foreign trade; 2. internal trade; 3. the new business aristocracy; ii. industry; 1. the evolution of the gilds; 2. encouragement of large-scale industry; 3. sketch of industrial development; 4. technical changes; 5. industrial classes; iii. agriculture; 1. the sale of produce; 2. conditions of production
3. development of production and technical progress 4. social classes in the country; chapter v: italy; 1. venice; 2. genoa; 3. tuscany; 4. the papal states; 5. the kingdom of naples; 6. the milanese; 7. piedmont; 8. conclusion; chapter vi: switzerland; chapter vii: germany and austria-hungary; 1. germany from 1500 to 1648; 2. chief german states from 1648 to the end of the eighteenth century-prussia; 3. the austrian monarchy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; chapter viii: the scandinavian states; 1. denmark; 2. norway; 3. sweden
Chapter ix: poland-russia 1. poland; 2. russia; conclusion; i. chief characteristics of the history of labour in europe from 1500 to 1800; 1. medieval survivals and their gradual disappearance; 2. the development of national economy; 3. progress of capitalism; 4. economic classes; 5. governmental intervention; ii. comparative evolution of the chief states; iii. the prelude to contemporary social economy; index
Notes Reprint of the 1926 ed
Translation of: Le travail dans l'Europe moderne
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Working class -- Europe
Work -- History
HISTORY -- World.
Economic history
Work
Working class
SUBJECT Europe -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045668
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Weulersse, Georges, 1874-1950.
Richards, Margaret
ISBN 9781136204340
1136204342
Other Titles Travail dans l'Europe moderne. English
Travail dans l'Europe moderne. English
Travail dans l'Europe moderne. English
Travail dans l'Europe moderne. English