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Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and his scholarship and approach have had a decisive effect on the orientation of economic and agricultural history. Using data on population, wages and rents from England, France, Germany and the Low Countries, and, on occasion, from Italy, Scandinavia and Poland, here Professor Abel demonstrates the striking similarity in the overall econo

Das Buch gibt Einblicke in die Lebensverhältnisse der vorindustriellen Welt. Es zeigt die Entwicklung der Lohneinkommen seit dem späten Mittelalter, verfolgt den Wechsel der Ernten, die Teuerungen und Hungerkrisen sowie die Verknappung der Rohstoffe.