...G Geltner; Claire Weeda Email: c.v.weeda@hum.leidenuniv.nl Galenism humoral theory mines ships preindustrial Europe public health As they emerge from diverse written and material sources, then, miners’ experiences and environments were shaped by the specific risks they faced as a community...

... used to examine responses to industrial-age climate change and future climate on the structure of the soil fungal communities associated with faster-growing E. saligna and slower-growing E. sideroxylon exposed to preindustrial (290 μL L⁻¹), current (400 μL L⁻¹...

... links to preindustrial culture and attachments to place and local communities, as well the ways in which journalists who had been pushed out of “respectable” politics connected to artisans and other workers. The book shows how much public recognition mattered to radical movements, and how religious...

...' Gaven van de milde St Marten De music pockmasters tourism tourists also travellers alleged arguments for tolerating prostitution Diderot Denis navy also battle fleet VOC soldiers prostitution as a business preindustrial economy debt sexual practices earnings clothes clients The aim...

...0 21 07 2005 Studies in many MENA societies show that mothers throughout the region traditionally followed “pediatric” models of infant care broadly similar to those of many preindustrial societies. Adapted to improving the chances of survival in conditions of high fertility and infant...

... variety of people. However, the destitute, disabled, and antisocial have typically made up the core of those for whom homelessness has been a way of life. In preindustrial society, slaves and prostitutes were also among these outcast groups (Hotten, 1860; Ribton-Turner, 1887; Aydelotte, 1913; Smith, 1970...

... among competing elements of the population: the central government, the emperor, the aristocracy, the army, the city of Rome, municipal elites, peasants, and slaves. Empire conquest formation preindustrial innovation This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...This chapter explains how the growing evidence for the relevance of preindustrial policies naturally questions the endogenous emergence of the institutions and the environmental conditions that favored their implementation. The literature recently moved to exploring the determinants of the economic...

...Chapter abstractWe return to policy and empirical or archival-based histories zooming in on a now all but forgotten type of business venture once characteristic of the preindustrial oeconomic landscape as a case in point: the very same large centralized workshop or manufactory (Manufaktur...

...This chapter provides information about the regional origins of wealth and prosperity in the preindustrial period. Differences in place prosperity existed in all great preindustrial civilizations. Some towns were larger and richer than others. Peasants, tradesmen, and aristocrats were richer...

.... In contrast to most preindustrial norms, they involved speed, subordination, and specialization, and they could prove quite unpleasant. The key trends have gone through numerous iterations, with changing technologies and changing job categories, but the links between contemporary patterns and the early...

... Black Death Crosby A Ibn Khaldûn Pax Mongolica scientific travellers globalization voyagers voyages Jakarta Batavia growth preindustrial organization demographics food farming states cities nomads Eurasia Humans, like all animals, need to cooperate to get things done, and this chapter...

...This book collects and reconstructs the old religions of preindustrial Micronesia. It draws mostly from written sources from the turn of the nineteenth century and the period immediately after World War II: reports of the Hamburg South Sea Expedition of 1908–1910, articles by German Roman Catholic...

..., preindustrial society of some 200,000 to 300,000 inhabitants. However, there were sharp fluctuations in detail, some areas and some groups rising while others retreated in the scale of growth. The Jewish Yishuv and its major component sections experienced relatively large and rapid shifts in fortune. nineteenth...

... the impersonality of the war of modem technology and the trenches toward preindustrial ideals of individualism, chivalry, and the conquest of space and time. The snowy heights of the Alps and the blue skies over Flanders’ fields made it possible for those who fought there-aviators or mountain troops-to appropriate...

... not yet faced this dilemma. Strong states did not yet exist as larger scale, effective units requiring matching popular cohesion. Preindustrial economies were still largely based on localized agriculture. And power had long been held locally by nobles only loosely connected to monarchs, with central...

... providing a new interpretation of the quantity–quality trade-off in a health context. A key insight from this study is that demographic change is essential to understanding the preindustrial growth record as well as the (relative) timing of the take-off to sustained growth. The major motivation...

...In 1885, a team of Lake District artisans led by a London barrister crafted a hand-made book that celebrated the revival of preindustrial methods of spinning and weaving in the region. The hand-made book offers a departure point to examine the culture of sufficiency in Ruskin’s Lake District...

... a week between 4 and 10 A.M., the rambling sheds at Tsukiji become a swirling maelstrom of frenetic motion and industrial-strength noise, high-tech electronics, and nearly preindustrial manual labor. Tsukiji stands at the center of a technologically sophisticated, multibillion dollar international...