Written for the layman as well as the economic historian this famous and much-used book not only presents a general synthesis of the pattern of European industr

A transnational survey of the economic development of Europe, exploring why some regions advanced and some stayed behind.

The Industrial Revolution is a central concept in conventional understandings of the modern world, and as such is a core topic on many history courses. It is th

The new opportunities for economic development in Eastern Europe and the approach of 1992 have heightened interest in the development of the European economy. T

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be