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The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West

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The Field and the Forge offers a new approach to the pre-industrial past in Europe and the Mediterranean basin from the Roman Republic to the fall of Napoleon. Based on an original synthesis of 'structural' economic and demographic history with traditionally 'event driven' political and military history, it takes as its starting point E. A. Wrigley's concept of 'organic economies' and their reliance on the land for energy and raw materials. The opening section considers the ensuing constraints on productivity, transportation, and the spatial organization of the economy. The second section analyses the constraints imposed by muscle-powered military technology and by the organic economy on the tactical, operational, and strategic use of armed force, and the consequences of the spread of firearms in recorded history's first energy revolution. This is followed by an analysis of the military and economic constraints on the political integration of space through the formation of geographically extensive political units, and the volume concludes with a section on the demographic and economic consequences of the investment of manpower and resources in war. Existing accounts of organic economies emphasize their restricted potential to support economic and political development, but this volume also considers why so much potential remained unrealized. Endemic mass poverty curtailed demand, limiting incentives for investment and innovation, and keeping output growth below what was technologically possible. Resource shortages prevented rulers from establishing a fiscal apparatus capable of appropriating such resources as were physically available. But economic inefficiency also created a pool of under-utilized resources that could potentially be mobilized in pursuit of political power. The volume gives an innovative account of this potential - and why it was realized in the ancient world rather than the medieval west - together with a new analysis of the gunpowder revolution and the inability of rulers to meet the consequential costs within the confines of an organic economy.

Table of Contents:
1: Introduction - Time, Space, and Population Part I: The Organic Economy and Demographic Space 2: Population Dynamics 3: Production and Technology 4: The Means of Transport 5: Trade and Traffic Part II: Military Technology 6: Battlefields before Gunpowder 7: The Gunpowder Revolution 8: Military Capital: Oars, Sails, Walls, and Guns Part III: Force, Power, and Space 9: War and the Organic Economy 10: Power and Space I: Expanding Control 11: Power and Space II: Maintaining Control Part IV: War, Population, and Resources 12: The Cost of War: Manpower and Resources 13: Population, Production, and Technology 14: The Cost of War: Mortality and Population Loss 15: Spending, Taxing, and Borrowing 16: Conclusion Bibliography Appendixes

Review :
Review from previous edition History Today: Book of the Year Prize: Highly Commended `Thoughtful and wide-ranging account that ably integrates economic and political circumstances in order to assess the causes, extent and limitations of development in the pre-industrial West.' History Today `... explores the important inter-connections and parallels between economic and military history in a thoughtful way, and it will stimulate future discussion.' Times Higher Education Supplement `... has a wide intellectual scope, as it employs a range of models and theories, and is based on data drawn from many sources. Historians of all varieties will benefit from its ideas, but practitioners of economic and military history will find it especially useful.' Times Higher Education Supplement `... formidable and thought-provoking book.' Times Higher Education Supplement `Landers's wide-ranging analysis of the links between economic and military change is thoughtful and provocative, with valuable discussions of the financial and demographic impacts of war.' Peter Clark, Times Literary Supplement `[a] wide ranging study of the economic and military changes in the West from the ancient period to the start of the nineteenth century.' Peter Clark, Times Literary Supplement `His book is an ambitoius and wide ranging synthesis that is both thoughtful and thought provoking.' The American Historical Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199279579
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 233 mm
  • No of Pages: 464
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 761 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199279578
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Population, Production, and Power in the Pre-industrial West
  • Width: 157 mm


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