Gold and silver mining in the 16th and 17th centuries, land titles and agricultural productivity

Although agricultural productivity is critical for economic development very little is known about the causes of the large dispersion in agricultural productivity across the world. Microeconomic studies increasingly stress the lack of land rights in many poor countries as an important source of low productivity. This paper examines the role played by land titles in explaining differences in agricultural productivity for 93 countries. Using the per capita accumulated value of gold and silver production in the 16th and 17th centuries as instruments for land rights it is shown that enforcement of land titles is a significant source of agricultural productivity inequality across the world.

Municipal Self-Government in the Ukrainian Lands: 14th-16th Centuries

This project considered the development of municipal self-government (particularly the Magdeburg-law type) in Ukraine through the late Middle Ages in the context of central and eastern European history, using a comparative analysis of different forms of self-government. The Magdeburg Law was brought to the lands of old Rus by German colonists in the period of the Galician-Volhynian State (in the late 13th-early 14th centuries). Municipal self-government based on this law in Ukraine was now however an external artificial phenomenon, but rather an intrinsic need that emerged during the historical development of the society. The Magdeburg Law reached Ukraine through Poland and acquired certain features which were different from the form used in German towns, and Ukrainian towns further adapted the Magdeburg model to their own circumstances. It was "purest" in the western part of the region, while further to the east Magdeburg-Law-type municipal government appeared later, was further removed from its original form, and had a weaker influence on the historical development of the towns. The Magdeburg Law came to be a legalisation of a historically determined process of the emergence of an urban estate.

Spanish ribbed vaults in the 15th and 16th centuries

Proceedings of the First International Congress on Construction History : Madrid, 20th-24th January 2003

A catalogue of French economic documents from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

contains 1471 pieces." - Pref.

Introduction to the literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries./

Vols. 2-4 have half-title: Collection of ancient and modern British authors. v. 166-167 bis.

English house design, a review : being a selection and brief analysis of some of the best achievements in English domestic architecture from the 16th to the 20th centuries, together with numerous examples of contemporary design /

Mode of access: Internet.

The miscellany of the Wodrow Society: containing tracts and original letters, chiefly relating to the ecclesiastical affairs of Scotland during the 16th and 17th centuries. Vol. 1.centuries /

No more published.

Staroźytne przypowieści z XV, XVI i XVII wieku [Ancient sayings of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries]

Based on the collections of Salomon Rysiński and others.

Republican National Convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896.

Mode of access: Internet.

Republican National Convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th 1896 : with a history of the Republican Party and a survey of national politics since the Party's foundation, etc. etc. /

Includes index.

Perpetual motion; comprising a history of the efforts to attain self-motive mechanism, with a classified, illustrated, collection and explanation of the devices whereby it has been sought and why they failed, and comprising also a revision and re-arrangement of the information afforded by "Search for self-motive power during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries," London, 1861, and "A history of the search for self-motive power from the 13th to the 19th century," London, 1870, by Henry Dircks ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Early illustrated books; a history of the decoration and illustration of books in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Includes index.