Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe Book contents
- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
- New Approaches to European History
- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Maps, Tables, and Graph
- Preface
- Maps
- Part I
- Part II Introduction: The Long Sixteenth Century
- Part III Introduction: From Seventeenth-century Crisis to Long Eighteenth Century
- 6 Commerce, Capital, Consumption
- 7 Agriculture: Divergence, Development, Disappointment
- 8 Proto-industry to Early Industrial Revolution
- 9 Transitions
- Appendices
- Index
- References
8 - Proto-industry to Early Industrial Revolution
from Part III - Introduction: From Seventeenth-century Crisis to Long Eighteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2019
- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
- New Approaches to European History
- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Maps, Tables, and Graph
- Preface
- Maps
- Part I
- Part II Introduction: The Long Sixteenth Century
- Part III Introduction: From Seventeenth-century Crisis to Long Eighteenth Century
- 6 Commerce, Capital, Consumption
- 7 Agriculture: Divergence, Development, Disappointment
- 8 Proto-industry to Early Industrial Revolution
- 9 Transitions
- Appendices
- Index
- References
Summary
Throughout Europe, industries revived then grew impressively across the long eighteenth century. Papermills in the Zaan (Holland) annually produced 20,000 reams in 1650, increasing to 160,000 reams in 1780; shipments of Irish linen shot up from one–two million yards in the 1710s to forty-seven million yards in the 1790s; French iron output more than tripled from 1740 to 1789. The expansion of rural manufacture was especially marked, even in less industrialized areas such as Poland, where around 1800 thousands of spinners in the surrounding countryside supplied thread to the 1,000 or so linen looms in Andrychów village.
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- Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern EuropeEconomies in the Era of Early Globalization, c. 1450 – c. 1820, pp. 275 - 344Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019