role and significance of the rich and the super-rich in the long run of history. With a focus on the West, particularly … Europe and North America, Alfani's research spans a thousand years of history. He draws from a wealth of comparative data, as … well as insights gleaned from the latest research in economic history, sociology, and anthropology, to show how society …

Within just a generation or two of its arrival, print had become a ubiquitous and spirited part of Spain and Portugal …