Überblickswerk, welches die Entwicklung und soziale Organisation des Handwerks vom 11. bis zum ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert unter Berücksichtigung von Wirtschafts- und Technikgeschichte europaweit behandelt. Anschaulich geschrieben, teilweise durch Illustrationen und tabellarische Aufzählungen...

"Knowledge and Industrial Development: The Stakes By "the first knowledge economy" we refer to the era of the Industrial Revolution, from roughly the 1760s to the 1850s, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe, with particular attention to Belgium"--

"During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this...

"In the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would...