Reinterpretation of American Economic History - Robert William Fogel - Hardcover Book

I'm quite interested in social and economic history, particularly with regards to early Medieval times, and this book is a pretty solid entry into that corpus. It's an overview of the the whole period, dividing itself between the economic life of the nobility, the gentry, rural peasants and townsfolk. Anyone looking for a big revelation, a moment of "this is the key to unlocking what happened," will probably be disappointed, because there's not a lot of that here. Even the Black Death, a major event in European social history, is shown to have not followed precisely what theory might have predicted. Which isn't a flaw; data should be looked at in its entirety. But it does make this book less than flashy.