Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Chapter I Introduction
- Chapter II The scientific movement and the diffusion of scientific ideas, 1688–1751
- Chapter III CULTURAL CHANGE IN WESTERN EUROPE
- Chapter IV Religion and the relations of church and state
- Chapter V International relations in Europe
- Chapter VI The English revolution
- Chapter VII The Nine Years War, 1688–1697
- Chapter VIII The emergence of Great Britain as a world power
- Chapter IX War finance, 1689–1714
- Chapter X The condition of France, 1688–1715
- Chapter XI The Spanish Empire under foreign pressures, 1688–1715
- Chapter XII From the Nine Years War to the war of the Spanish Succession
- Chapter XIII The war of the Spanish succession in Europe
- Chapter XIV The pacification of Utrecht
- Chapter XV France and England in North America, 1689–1713
- Chapter XVI Portugal and her Empire, 1680–1720
- Chapter XVII The Mediterranean
- Chapter XVIII The Austrian Habsburgs
- Chapter XIX The retreat of the Turks, 1683–1730
- Chapter XX(1) Charles XII and the Great Northern War
- Chapter XX(2) The eclipse of Poland
- Chapter XXI Russia under Peter the Great and the changed relations of east and west
- Chapter XXII ARMIES AND NAVIES
- Chapter XXIII ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
- 1 The map of commerce, 1683–1721
- References
2 - Prices, population and economic activities in europe, 1688—1715: a note
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Chapter I Introduction
- Chapter II The scientific movement and the diffusion of scientific ideas, 1688–1751
- Chapter III CULTURAL CHANGE IN WESTERN EUROPE
- Chapter IV Religion and the relations of church and state
- Chapter V International relations in Europe
- Chapter VI The English revolution
- Chapter VII The Nine Years War, 1688–1697
- Chapter VIII The emergence of Great Britain as a world power
- Chapter IX War finance, 1689–1714
- Chapter X The condition of France, 1688–1715
- Chapter XI The Spanish Empire under foreign pressures, 1688–1715
- Chapter XII From the Nine Years War to the war of the Spanish Succession
- Chapter XIII The war of the Spanish succession in Europe
- Chapter XIV The pacification of Utrecht
- Chapter XV France and England in North America, 1689–1713
- Chapter XVI Portugal and her Empire, 1680–1720
- Chapter XVII The Mediterranean
- Chapter XVIII The Austrian Habsburgs
- Chapter XIX The retreat of the Turks, 1683–1730
- Chapter XX(1) Charles XII and the Great Northern War
- Chapter XX(2) The eclipse of Poland
- Chapter XXI Russia under Peter the Great and the changed relations of east and west
- Chapter XXII ARMIES AND NAVIES
- Chapter XXIII ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
- 1 The map of commerce, 1683–1721
- References
Summary
A direct attack on the history of economic activity postulates indices of production, distribution and consumption. As only a very few indices of this kind exist for the remote past, even for the late seventeenth century, so that we are forced to recur to a method of indirect approach, such as the analysis of price series. Documents survive from the end of the seventeenth century which serve to make good the lack of comprehensive and periodical population censuses. There are limited enumerations and evaluations to be extracted from administrative sources. The economic climate of this age in many countries was inescapably stamped by brutal up-and-down movements. Over a longer term and on the international plane, the moderate and comparatively regular rise in prices is only a contradiction in appearance of the over-all downward trend to be noticed at least from the middle of the seventeenth century and to be prolonged far into the eighteenth.
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