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Economic Development

The natural progression of economy is from rural to urban

The Natural Progress of Opulence

Chapter 1

The Discouragement of Agriculture after the Fall of the Roman Empire

Chapter 2

Metayers and Sharecropping

Chapter 2b

Services Given by Farmers

Chapter 2c

The Origin of Free-Traders

Chapter 3

From Free Cities to Independent Republics

Chapter 3b

The Development of European Manufacturing

Chapter 3c

How the Commerce of the Towns Improved the Countryside

Chapter 4

The Origin of Feudalism: Property Rights

Chapter 4b

Dynasties and the Development of Europe

Chapter 4c