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This paper reviews the history of human economic activity from the time Homo sapiens appeared to the present. The first aim is to provide a coherent narrative of the economic history of this period. The second aim is to quantify economic activities where time series data is available and to use economic theory to explain the trends and turning points. It examines the history of three central time series – the aggregate human population, output per capita and human‐induced species extinctions. It concludes with some brief observations on the contribution of Big Economic History to Big Human History.

Amongst other European and US focussed topics, Volume 27 addresses: the macroeconomic aggregates for England, 1209-2004; capital accumulation in Spain, 1850-2000; British Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830. Notably there is also a contribution from the late William Parker , who chapter discusses historical trends in food consumption in the United States.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition -- Conceptual Preface -- Part I: Household, Clan, Village and Manor (The Agrarian Organisation) -- 1 Agrarian Organisation and the Problem of Agrarian Communism -- 2 Appropriation and Verband - The Clan -- 3 The Economic Development of Seignoral Property -- 4 Internal Development of Manorial Rule -- 5 The Situation of the Peasantry in Various Occidental Countries before the Penetration of Capitalism -- 6 The Capitalistic Development of the Manor -- Part II: Industry and Mining before the Development of Capitalism -- 7 Principal Forms of Industrial Organization -- 8 Developmental Stages of Industry and Mining -- 9 Craft Guilds -- 10 The Emergence of Occidental Guilds -- 11 The Disintegration of the Guilds and the Development of the Domestic System -- 12 Workshop Production. The Factory and its Forerunners -- 13 Mining Prior to Capitalist Development -- Part III: Commerce in Goods and Money in the Precapitalist Era -- 14 The Origins and Development of Trade -- 15 Technical Preconditions for the Carriage of Goods -- 16 The Organizational Forms of Trade and Transport -- 17 Trading and Forms of Economic Enterprise -- 18 Merchant Guilds -- 19 Money and Monetary History -- 20 Money and Banking in the Precapitalist Era -- 21 Interest in the Precapitalist Period -- Part IV: The Emergence of Modern Capitalism -- 22 The Concept and Presuppositions of Capitalism -- 23 The External Features of Capitalist Development -- 24 The First Major Speculative Crises -- 25 Free Wholesale Trade -- 26 Colonial Policy from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century -- 27 The Development of Industrial Technology -- 28 Citizenship -- 29 The Rational State -- 30 The Conditions for Capitalist Development.