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Energy and the English Industrial Revolution Energy and the English Industrial Revolution Edward Anthony Wrigley "The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new accou… OL16976401W
Balance Balance R. Glenn Hubbard A quarter century after Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Glenn Hubbard and Tim Kane present a bold, sweeping account of why powerful nations and civilizations break down under th… OL19969873W
Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history Documentary sources in ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman economic history Michael Jursa,Heather D. Baker "This volume breaks new ground in approaching the Ancient Economy by bringing together documentary sources from Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world. Addressing textual corpora that have traditional… OL20973596W