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  • Money, Prices and Power in Poland, 16th-17th Centuries

    A Comparative Approach

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The first articles in this volume focus on sources for the history of Baltic commerce and the evaluation of their data on prices. In most cases, though, surviving data is hardly adequate for any extensive quantitative analysis of Polish economic history, and many of these articles endeavour in different ways to use comparitive approaches to help overcome this lack of substantial statistical base - ... Read more

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  • Natural Resources in European History

    A Conference Report

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Natural Resources in European History pulls together several papers from the Bellagio Conference on Natural Resources and Economic Development which took place in 1977. Originally published in 1978, this report focuses on papers exploring the history of natural resources in Continental Europe presenting research on how resources were traded, collected and depleted between the fifteenth and ... Read more

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  • Unequal Friendship

    The Patron-Client Relationship in Historical Perspective

    Series Book 20 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    This book analyzes the patron-client relationship over both space and time. It covers such areas of the globe as Europe, Africa and Latin America, and such periods in time as ancient Rome, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Poland, as well as twentieth-century America. It also analyzes clientelism in U.S. policy toward the Vietnam War and in Richard J. Daley’s mayoral rule over Chicago. In his ... Read more

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