Il Settecento

Il Settecento

l'età dei lumi

La guerra di successione spagnola

Il problema demografico

Concause

1713 Utrecht

1714 Radstadt

Presentazione

Non per il disciplinamento!

Filippo V di Borbone

Le concause del libro

• minore impatto delle carestie

Tra 1689 e 1763 mancata concomitanza tra epidemie e guerre

obblighi di quarantena

• vaccinazione fine Settecento
• Condizioni climatiche
• Innalzamento età matrimoniale

tra 1689 e 1763 mancata concomitanza tra epidemie e guerre

Il contrario!

maggiore fertilità lungo la vita

Il problema del commercio

Daudin e Charles (https://www.cairn.info/revue-de-l-ofce-2015-4-page-7.htm#)

The long eighteenth century is of special interest for economic historians, as it includes the event that founded the economic history of modern societies: the Industrial Revolution. Its genesis effectively goes back to sometime between 1750 and 1815, when Great Britain opened the era of the Great Divergence and escaped once and for all from the economic constraints of the Ancien Regime. The ongoing debate among economists and historians shows there is no agreement on the direct causes as to why Britain was the first industrial nation and why other countries lagged behind. [2]

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See, for example, the panel on the causes of the Industrial… Current and past works have explored several hypotheses. The most traditional explanations have ascribed the causes to previous technological advances (Mantoux, 1905), the “agricultural revolution” (Bairoch, 1966, 1997) and the role of slavery (Williams, 1944). Recently, the debate has been largely renewed as researchers have emphasized the roles of: efficient institutions (Acemoglu, Johnson, &Robinson, 2001; D. C. North, 1973; Robinson, Acemoglu, &Johnson, 2005); the scientific revolution and the industrial enlightenment (Mokyr, 2004, 2010); privileged access to natural resources (such as coal and sugar), which relaxed the Malthusian trap (Pomeranz, 2000; Wrigley, 2010); an economy marked by high-wages and low-energy costs (Robert C. Allen, 2009); transforming attitudes toward work and consumption, (De Vries, 2008); the rise of bourgeois values (McCloskey, 2010); Social Darwinism (G. Clark, 2007); and, finally, the importance of the Royal Navy and the military successes of the British (Findlay &O’Rourke, 2007; O’Brien, 2011; Pomeranz, 2009).

L'illuminismo

1748 - 1815

• Riforme e rivoluzione (1748 - 1795)
• Napoleonica (1795 - 1815)

Illuminismo

Sociale

Economico

Politico

Cambio dell'Europa

• Rivoluzione
• Democrazia
• Repubblica
• Riforme

1776 e 1789

1750 Encyclopédie

Topic 3

Topic 4

Topic 5