During the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, the preconditions for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society were established. 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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Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700
During the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, the preconditions for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society were established. 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.