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The Surprising Wealth of Pre-industrial England [PDF]

Occupations listed in wills reveal that as early as 1560 effectively only 60% of the English engaged in farming. Even by 1817, well into the Industrial Revolution, the equivalent primary share, once we count in food and raw material imports, was still 52%
Brock Smith, Gregory Clark, Joe Cummins
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Tropic Architecture [PDF]

, 2015
Mannerist architects in the Cinquecento created what can be called “tropic architecture.” They set out to break the rules of classical architecture, but the rule-breaking was done systematically, by applying rhetorical tropes, or figures of speech, to ...
Hendrix, John S
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Dyspepsia in the middle ages: a reference in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (14th century AD)? [PDF]

Acta Biomed, 2023
Galassi FM, Spani G, Papio M, Toscano F, Artico M, Varotto E.   +5 more
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Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries [PDF]

If mankind’s three basic necessities have always been food, clothing, and shelter, whose production, trade, and consumption have rightly been a primary focus of economists and economic historians for many generations, we may ask this vital question: how ...
John H. Munro
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An analysis of likes and dislikes for history and geography of 3360 sixth grade children [PDF]

, 1951
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston ...
Corbett, Edmund R., Gatley, Linwood W., Hatch, Frances M., Hunt, George A., Mansour, Thomas J., Paradise, Paul E., Shaw, John M., III, Stacey, Grace R., Stone, Deborah E., Tucker, Doris A.   +9 more
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Commercialisation, Factor Prices and Technological Progress in the Transition to Modern Economic Growth [PDF]

We provide a model of the links between commercialisation and technological progress, which is consistent with the historical evidence and places market relations at the heart of the industrial revolution.
Broadberry, Stephen, Ghosal, Sayantan, Proto, Eugenio   +2 more
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Surgery as a Science: The Intellectual and Practical Evolution of European Surgery from the 16th to the 18th century [PDF]

, 2015
This thesis will highlight some of the major technological inventions in the field of surgery during this time range, but more importantly will utilize the scarce resources available to piece together why these technologies did advance and how they ...
Nebiolo, Molly
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3. The Expansion of Europe

, 1958
Concurrent with the political and diplomatic developments just described, and exercising a significant influence upon them, there occurred a vast overseas expansion of Western Civilization.
Bloom, Robert L., Crapster, Basil L., Dunkelberger, Harold L., Glatfelter, Charles H., Mara, Richard T., Richardson, Norman E., Schubart, W. Richard   +6 more
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National and Private Ambitions in the Patronage of French Cardinals at the Papal Court (Fifteenth to Sixteenth centuries) [PDF]

, 2017
Few French cardinals left important traces in the form of architectural patronage in Rome during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a period characterised by the alternation of times of strong tension between the French kings and the Papacy, and ...
Bardati, Flaminia
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Entwined African and Asian genetic roots of medieval peoples of the Swahili coast. [PDF]

Nature, 2023
Brielle ES, Fleisher J, Wynne-Jones S, Sirak K, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Callan K, Curtis E, Iliev L, Lawson AM, Oppenheimer J, Qiu L, Stewardson K, Workman JN, Zalzala F, Ayodo G, Gidna AO, Kabiru A, Kwekason A, Mabulla AZP, Manthi FK, Ndiema E, Ogola C, Sawchuk E, Al-Gazali L, Ali BR, Ben-Salem S, Letellier T, Pierron D, Radimilahy C, Rakotoarisoa JA, Raaum RL, Culleton BJ, Mallick S, Rohland N, Patterson N, Mwenje MA, Ahmed KB, Mohamed MM, Williams SR, Monge J, Kusimba S, Prendergast ME, Reich D, Kusimba CM.   +43 more
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