In this 1999 book, Karl Gunnar Persson surveys a broad sweep of economic history, examining one of the most crucial markets - grain. His analysis allows him to

The second edition of a leading textbook on European economic history, updated throughout and with new coverage of post-financial crisis Europe.

This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.

This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Efficient market structures

The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine