Population : modes of seventeenth-century demographic thought / Ted McCormick -- Labor : employment, colonial servitude, and slavery in the seventeenth-century Atlantic / Abigail Swingen -- Money : Hartlibian political economy and the new culture of credit / Carl Wennerlind -- Epistemology :...

This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three...

"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...