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_bBAR/S
100 1 _aBarbier, Edward,
245 1 0 _aScarcity and frontiers: how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation/
_cEdward B. Barbier.
260 _aNew York:
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _axviii, 748 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : scarcity and frontiers -- The agricultural transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC) -- The rise of cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD) -- The emergence of the world economy (from 1000 to 1500) -- Global frontiers and the rise of Western Europe (from 1500 to 1914) -- The Atlantic economy triangular trade (from 1500 to 1860) -- The golden age of resource-based development (from 1870 to 1914) -- The age of dislocation (from 1914 to 1950) -- The contemporary era (from 1950 to the present) -- Epilogue : the age of ecological scarcity?
650 0 _aAgriculture
_xEconomic aspects
_xHistory.
650 0 _aNatural resources.
650 0 _aScarcity.
650 0 _aEconomic development.
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