ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|130 pages
Early Modern Europe (1400–1800)
part A|56 pages
Trade and Resource Use in the Baltic Area
chapter Chapter 1|34 pages
North European Commerce as a Solution to Resource Shortage in the Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries
part B|72 pages
Topical Studies of Resource Problems
chapter Chapter 4|29 pages
Resource Depletion in the European Mining and Metallurgical Industries, 1400–1800 1
part II|90 pages
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
