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ISBN: 9780195121216 - The Great Wave
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The Great Wave

Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

David Hackett Fischer

ISBN: 9780195121216
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: New edition


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Records of prices span the entire range of history, from medieval grain prices to modern statistics. Going beyond the economic data, this text gives a history of the people of the Western world: the economic patterns they lived in, and the politics, culture and society they created as a result.

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A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.
 
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