The Historical Journal, celebrating the publication of its 50th volume this year, continues to publish papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century. The ...

For generation upon generation, dating back thousands of years, mankind has lived within the confines of an agrarian economy. It wasn't until the late eighteenth century that things began to change, ...

The paper develops a simple micro-economic model of the semi-subsistence family-farm and uses it to analyze the proto-industrialization and de-industrialization processes. It claims that regional ...