num_pages: 352
description: The Third Edition includes substantial revisions and new material throughout the book that will secure its standing as the most useful history available of preindustrial Europe.During the seven hundred years before the Industrial Revolution the stage was set for Europe's transformation from a backward agrarian society to a powerful industrialized society. An economic historian of international reputation Carlo M. Cipolla explores the process that made this transformation possible. In so doing he sheds light not only on the economic factors but on the culture surrounding them.
language: English
title: Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company