In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America. This 'industrious revolution' is the context in which the economic acceleration associated with the Industrial Revolution took shape. This study explores the ...
By relating economic changes to the political backdrop, The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750 describes and analyzes the economic civilisation of Europe in the last epoch before the Industrial Revolution. The author makes a special effort to apply economic reasoning to the economic forces of the period and challenges some ...
Nobel laureate Robert Fogel's compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries and beyond. Throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm. During the past three centuries, however, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and in human physiology has enabled humans ...
Death and the Metropolis offers a powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century', concentrating on mortality but also including data on marital fertility, population structure and migration. The study is based on a variety of sources including weekly and annual Bills of Mortality, parish registers and Quaker ...
Take a fresh approach to eliminating disease and achieving emotional fulfillment though the Eastern concept of Chi, or the flow of good energy. This far-ranging encyclopedia gives advice on what form of healing energy to apply, selecting a complementary therapist, and practical exercises to try at home. Tap into various forms of holistic medicine ...
The First Modern Economy provides a comprehensive economic history of the Netherlands during its rise to European economic leadership, the 'Golden Age', and subsequent decline (1500-1815). The authors argue that it was the first modern economy, and defend their position with detailed analyses of its major economic sectors, as well as ...
This series explores open questions at the intersection of art history and the humanities. Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.
In this important study, Professor McIntosh argues against the suggestion that social regulation was a distinctive feature of the decades around 1600, resulting from Puritanism. Instead, through an examination of 255 village and small-town communities distributed throughout England, Professor McIntosh demonstrates that concern with wrongdoing ...
This homoeopathic handbook to better health offers advice on maintaining a healthy diet, administering vitamin and mineral supplements and on natural medicinal techniques such as acupuncture, naturopathy and osteopathy.
Jan de Vries, although trained as a pharmacist, turned to alternative medicine early in his career. His most influential teacher was the world-renowned Swiss doctor, Alfred Vogel. In this book, he addresses the causes and treatments for epilepsy and various forms of migraines, such as common, classical, abdominal, circulatory, hormonal, and ...
In this informative volume, the acclaimed Jan de Vries deals with one of the major problems plaguing today's society: disorders resulting from stress and nervousness. He discusses the issues and provides proven and practical advice based especially on a low-stress diet. Areas such as depression, anorexia nervosa, phobias, allergies, and alcoholism ...
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on an industrial countryside in south-west Germany, where a dense worsted industry dominated the rural economy from 1580 to 1800. This is an example of 'proto-industry', the dense, export-oriented rural manufacturing which arose throughout Europe before factory industrialization. But although the ...
This volume answers many questions which the author has been consistently asked over the years, about subjects from varicose veins to the use of vitamin E, from headaches to verrucas, from air and water pollution to ME, candida and other present-day problems.
This is the first in a series of books. It is written with a common sense approach and explains how herbal remedies can complement any lifestyle by combining natural cures with pharmaceutical and orthodox medicines.
This book provides a penetrating account of death and disease in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using a wide range of sources for the south-east of England, the author highlights the tremendous variation in levels of mortality across geographical contours and across two centuries. She explores the epidemiological causes ...
Some of the most frequently prescribed and powerful drugs are based on plant extracts, and an increasing number of people are beginning to rediscover the healing powers of roots and plants. Jan de Vries has researched as far back as the 12th century and has recorded the folk wisdom of various countries in this insightful volume. Also gathered here ...
This study redresses the North and South imbalance of much work on economic and social history by focusing on the lives and economic impact of the building trade in the major urban centres of the North during the early modern period. The period 1450-1750 witnessed substantial changes in England: to the size of national population, the range of ...
From the time of Malthus, the insufficient supply of food resources has been considered the main constraint of population growth and the main factor in the high mortality prevailing in pre-industrial times. In this essay, the mechanisms of biological, social and cultural nature linking subsistence, mortality and population and determining its ...
This is a guide on how to become pregnant, being pregnant and the subsequent after-care of the new-born baby. The author discusses at length the importance of diet during pregnancy and what preparations can be made for breast feeding. He also discusses the role that complementary medicine can play. Other topics covered include rectifying the ...
Based on the combined works and extensive knowledge of Jan de Vries, Dr Carl Heede and Marie-Louise Schicht, this book provides guidelines on how to treat diseases associated with modern society. The author suggests that many of these diseases must be addressed in a new way - in treating 21st century diseases, a 21st century approach is needed. At ...
In "Emotional Healing", world-renowned alternative-health expert Jan de Vries turns his attention to the myriad of mental and emotional conditions that he has seen increase amongst his patients in recent years. This important new addition to the "Jan de Vries Healthcare" series offers practical advice on how to cope with the emotional effects of ...
In this volume, Jan de Vries explains what sufferers of cancer and leukaemia can do to help themselves, emphasizing the need for a positive approach to cancer and relieving the stress it causes through exercise and visualization techniques.
An introduction to the history of religions surveys the attitudes toward religion expressed by thinkers, scholars, and writers from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.
This helpful and informative new publication by world-renowned alternative health guru, Jan de Vries, is a straightforward and constructive guide to maintaining good health by natural means. Packed full of useful tips and revealing new case studies, the book covers a wide range of issues and offers advice on how to: keep fit and healthy; give up ...
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The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350
