Essays in economic history

This book covers the following topics The rise of a money economy;The yield and price of corn in the Middle Ages; Assarting and the growth of the open fields;An industrial revolution of the thirteenth century;Credit in Medieval trade; Prices and industrial capitalism in France and England, 1540-1640;The progress of technology and the growth of large-scale industry in Great Britain, 1540-1640;The development of the London food Market, 1540-1640;Commercial trends and policy in sixteenth-century England ;The rise of the gentry, 1558-1640;The decline of Spain;Dutch and English merchant shipping in the seventeenth century;The economic decline of the Netherlands;The small landowner, 1780-1832, in the light of the land tax assessments;The old poor law, 1662-1795;The population problem during the Industrial Revolution : a note on the present state of the controversy;The population of England and Wales from the Industrial Revolution to the World War;The denomination and character of shares, 1855-1885; The coming of general limited liability;The limited companies of 1866-1883;The "Great Depression" in industry and trade;The economic factors in the history of the empire etc.