Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia is of importance for the understanding … of global history. The book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period … to the emergence of modern economic growth in Western Europe. 00Peer Vries was professor for Global Economic History at …

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history … history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in … followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular …