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'... Marfany's book demonstrates that economic growth could indeed maintain a larger population, but with the penalty of lower standards of living ...' Sixteenth Century Journal 'Le developpement economique de l'Europe et ses resultats furent pluriels. Ce livre offre une reflexion sur une zone du sud de l'Europe qui s'industrialise precocement et donne des cles pour comprendre les mecanismes qui ont permis un tel processus. Les chemins ne sont pas partout les mAmes, cette etude aide A en decouvrir la diversite.' Annales de Demographie Historique '... this is a thought-provoking book that expertly merges archival skills with knowledge of the debates on the early stages of industrialization. The book is also beautifully produced, and short enough not to deter the non-specialist reader. Author and publisher are to be congratulated.' Agricultural History Review '...this is an impressive book. Marfany, whose doctoral thesis on the demographic transition in Igualada was effectively the first application of the family reconstitution methods of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure to Catalonia, applies the same precision, de rigueur in this area, to the whole field of economic change here. In her thesis she reached path-breaking conclusions-some hinted at in this review-respecting Catalonia's demographic transition; in this study she demonstrates the specificity of Catalonia's transition to capitalism by a microscopic analysis of the behaviour of households and uses it to challenge the dominant, interpretative paradigms of European industrialization.' Bulletin of Spanish Studies

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Dr Julie Marfany is a Lecturer at the University of Durham.

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