Natural Resources in European History: A Conference Report

ISBN-13: 9781138952775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 16 str.

William N. Parker; Antoni Maczak

Opis

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 nineteenth century. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies or with an interest in Environmental History.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Early Modern Europe (1400–1800) Trade and Resource Use in the Baltic Area 1. North European Commerce as a Solution to Resource Shortage in the Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries 2. Foreign Trade and Forest Use in Northeastern Europe, 1660–1860 Topical Studies of Resource Problems 3. Resources and Construction Materials in Preindustrial Europe 4. Resource Depletion in European Mining and Metallurgical Industries , 1400–1800 5. Disaster M a nagement and Resource Saving in Europe, 1400-1800 6. Part II: The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries 7. Technical Change as an Escape from Resource Scarcity: England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 8. Natural Resources in Central Europe During the Industrial Revolution 9. Natural Resources, Preindustrial Society and Industrialization in Scandinavia 10. Natural Resources and Economic Development in the Mediterranean Basin 11. Discussion of Coppola and Lukasiewicz Papers