Capitalism and material life, 1400-1800
By: translated from the French by Miriam Kochan
Edition: 1st Harper Colophon ed.
Series: Harper Colophon books -- CN 433
Publisher: Harper Colophon
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Economic history; Social history
Work titles: Civilisation matérielle et capitalisme
Notes: Translation of Civilisation matérielle et capitalisme.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1 :; title: Weight of numbers --; title: Guessing the world population --; title: A Scale of reference --; title: The End of an old biological régime --; title: The Many against the few -- -- 2 :; title: Daily bread --; title: Corn --; title: Rice --; title: Maize --; title: The Rest of the world -- -- 3 :; title: Superfluity and sufficiency : food and drink --; title: Luxury and the foods of the masses --; title: Drinks, stimulants and drugs -- -- 4 :; title: Superfluity and sufficiency : houses, clothes and fashion --; title: Houses throughout the world --; title: Interiors --; title: Costume and fashion -- -- 5 :; title: The Spread of technology : sources of power and metallurgy --; title: The Key problem : sources of power --; title: Iron : a poor relation -- -- 6 :; title: The Spread of technology : revolutions and delay --; title: Three great technological innovations --; title: Transport --; title: Technology -- -- 7 :; title: Money --; title: Economies and imperfect money --; title: Outside Europe : early economies and metallic money --; title: Precious metals and metallic economies in Europe --; title: Paper money and instruments of credit -- -- 8 :; title: Towns --; title: The Town : a definition --; title: The Orginality of Western towns --; title: Large towns.