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Robert Latouche, trans. E. M. Wilkinson.
The Birth of the Western Economy: Economic Aspects of the Dark Ages, second edition.
Published London: Methuen, 1967 (previously issued 1961; French edition was 1956).
Series: University Paperbacks.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: John Dickens & Co., Northampton.
Size: 134×205×23mm.
Page count: text xviii,349pp; plates 8pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the covers and page edges on this copy are rather grubby and stained with some scuffs and creases, some wear at the edges and corners, some annotations on the back cover; spine creased and skewed; at least 28 pages have some inked underlining or other marking.

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Weight without packaging: 478g.

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Contents: Roman world — state control in the late Empire — conditions of rural life; Germanic world — primitive economy; Christian church — economic doctrine — result of its triumph; Farming & agriculture in very early Middle Ages — old theories & new horizons — mansus, villa & husbandry; Eclipse of town life & influence of church on its evolution; ‘Grand commerce’ of Merovingian period; Coinage & currency — seas & shipping; Charlemagne & controlled economy — reform of currency; Trade & barter under early Carolingians; ‘Villa’ of Charlemagne’s time — farming & manufacture; Structure of great estate & origin of rural ‘seigneurie’; Vikings & Scandinavian expansion; Resurgence of town life & of commercial activity; Expansion & development of agriculture in 11th c.

Illustrations: 12 pages, monochrome
Maps & plans: 4

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 19pp
Index: yes

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