Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of maps; Introduction to the 2003 edition; Preface; The Bounds; A Human Scale; An Aristocratic Age; Towns: a Civilized Security; The Peasant's World; Serfdom; The Mediterranean Lands; The Feudal Regime: France and Spain; Rural Depression and Recovery; Pioneers and Improvers; Population and War; Climate and Famine; Poverty, Charity and Crime; The Old Biological Regime; Further Reading; EARLY CAPITALISM; Needs and Wants; The Money Economy; The Old Industrial Regime; Overseas Trade; Further Reading; GOD AND MAN; The Papacy; Jansenism; Quietism; Pietism.
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In 1640 the term Europe was without real political significance. In the following years the idea of Europe came to mean much more - a period documented in this fascinating book.