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Summary: Economic history Encyclopaedia
Review: Economics is a social science and economic history is a story of human interaction in the economic sphere.It tells the story of markets,of organizations,of institutions,of small and large communities,from tiny medieval village to the huge communal economies of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.
Encyclopaedia is divided in to elevan parts.It gives articles on
-Geography :countries regions like Ireland,Italy ;to
-Geography :cities like Amsterdam,Rome,Venice;to
-Agriculture e.g. green revolution,irrigated farming,mixed farming,land lordism,oil crops;to
-Production systems,Business history,technology e.g.capitalism ,corporatism,air transportation,leisure industry,oil industry,telephone industry;to
-Demography e.g. migration;to
-Institutions,governments,markets e.g. mercantalism,free trade ;to
-Macroeconomical history ,International economics e.g. economic imperialism,monetary standards,exchange rates; to
-Money,Banking,Finance e.g. money, coinage,condumer credit;to
-Labour e.g. wage systems,labour markets;to
-Natural resources and environment e.g. nuclear power,solar power,pollution pest control; to
-Biographies of -a> Inventors and Writers on technology e.g. Alexander Graham Bell,James Watt,Wright brothers --------------b>Entrepreneurs ,Bankers,Labour leaders e.g. Andrew Carngie,Benjamin Franklin -c>Economics and Economic historians e.g. Thomas Malthus Karl Marx, Max Weber.
Encyclopaedia also includes maps like
-spread of agriculture upto 500BCE
-world trading empires,circa 1914
-world deforestation
-industrial revolution in Europe
-world's largest cities,1500-2015
It also covers paintings like
-Agriculture revolution
-Amsterdam
-French caribbean view of the exportation of sugar from the colonies
It is a very good reference source for students as well as for a laymen
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