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2 - Continental Europe

from Part I - Regional Developments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2021

By
Giovanni Federico  and
Andrei Markevich
Edited by
Stephen Broadberry  and
Kyoji Fukao
Stephen Broadberry
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Kyoji Fukao
Affiliation:
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
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Summary

This chapter reviews dramatic changes in the European economy between 1700 and 1870. The period saw a rapid population increase, slow structural transformation away from agriculture, and a gradual spread of modern economic growth across the continent. We discuss the proximate causes of these phenomena – namely, technical progress and the adaptation of English technology, growing integration of markets and upsurge of trade, and institutional modernization and the birth of the modern state.

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Europeeconomic developmentearly modernnineteenth century
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The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World , pp. 45 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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