A History of the European Economy, 1000-2000 Book

	List of Maps
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	List of Abbreviations
1	The Emergence of a European Economy
	Tenth through Thirteenth Centuries	1
	The Heritage from the "Dark Ages"	1
	An Age of Demographic Expansion	9
	Change and Progress on the Land	13
	Towns and Industries	22
	The Growth of Trade	27
	A New Europe	34
2	Change and Continuity in the European Economy, Fourteenth through Eighteenth Centuries	37
	Progress in Technology	38
	New and Old Trade Routes	50
	Manufactures In Town and Country	59
	Shifts in Economic Primacy	63
	Eastern Europe	74
	Low Productivity and Its Consequences	78
	Malthusian Traps	87
	Growth Prevails	94
3	The Age of Industrialization, 1760s-1914	99
	The Industrial Revolution	100
	Why Britain First?	110
	Continental Diffusion and Patterns of Industrialization	118
	Reforms and Industrialization	121
	Railroads	124
4	Disasters, Renaissance, Decline, 1914-2000	171
	The Economic Consequences of World War I	172
	The Interwar Years: Chronology	178
	The Interwar Years: Overall Views	182
	World War II and Its Aftermath	196
	The Golden Age	205
	The Eastern Bloc	214
	Slowing Down and Not Working	220
	Europe and Euro	233
	Upheaval in the East	246
	Conclusion	256
	Notes	261
	Selected Bibliography	297
	Index	307