The Field and the Forge
Subtitle: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West
By: John Landers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-06-03
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780199249169
Subjects: Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History.; Natural resources -- Europe -- History.; Power resources -- Europe -- History.; Power (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History.; Civilization, Western -- History.; Economic history.; Europe -- Population -- Economic aspects -- History.; Europe -- Economic conditions.; Europe -- History, Military.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [404]-427) and index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Introduction - Time, Space, and Population; label: Part I
title: The Organic Economy and Demographic Space; label: 2
title: Population Dynamics; label: 3
title: Production and Technology; label: 4
title: The Means of Transport; label: 5
title: Trade and Traffic; label: Part II
title: Military Technology; label: 6
title: Battlefields before Gunpowder; label: 7
title: The Gunpowder Revolution; label: 8
title: Military Capital: Oars, Sails, Walls, and Guns; label: Part III
title: Force, Power, and Space; label: 9
title: War and the Organic Economy; label: 10
title: Power and Space I: Expanding Control; label: 11
title: Power and Space II: Maintaining Control; label: Part IV
title: War, Population, and Resources; label: 12
title: The Cost of War: Manpower and Resources; label: 13
title: Population, Production, and Technology; label: 14
title: The Cost of War: Mortality and Population Loss; label: 15
title: Spending, Taxing, and Borrowing; label: 16
title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Appendixes