Natural resources in European history : a conference report / Antoni Mączak and William N. Parker, editors ; contributors, Antoni Mączak [and others].

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English
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Washington : Resources for the Future, 1978.
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xii, 226 pages : graphs ; 26 cm.

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    Papers from a conference at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, 1977, which was held in preparation for an international congress held by economic historians in Edinburgh, Aug. 1978.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • North European commerce as a solution to resource shortage in the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries / Maria Bogucka
    • Foreign trade and forest use in Northeaster Europe, 1660-1860 / Sven-Erik Astrom
    • Resources and construction materials in preindustrial Europe / Andrzej Wyrobisz
    • Resource depletion in European mining and metallurgical industries, 1400-1800 / Ian Blanchard
    • Disaster management and resource saving in Europe, 1400-1800 / Eric L. Jones
    • Technical change as an escape from resource scarcity: England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / M.W. Flinn
    • Natural resources in central Europe during the industrial revolution / Juliusz Lukasiewicz
    • Natural resources, reindustrial society and industrialization in Scandinavia / Karl-Gustav Hildebrand
    • Natural resources and economic development in the Mediterranean basin / Pasquale Coppola
    • Discussion of Coppola and Lukasiewicz papers / William N. Parker.
    ISBN
    • 0801822378
    • 9780801822377
    LCCN
    78024688
    OCLC
    4820718
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