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Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe from Part III - Introduction: From Seventeenth-century Crisis to Long Eighteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2019
Throughout Europe, industries revived then grew impressively across the long eighteenth century. Papermills in the Zaan (Holland) annually produced 20,000 reams in 1650, increasing to 160,000 reams in 1780; shipments of Irish linen shot up from one–two million yards in the 1710s to forty-seven million yards in the 1790s; French iron output more than tripled from 1740 to 1789. The expansion of rural manufacture was especially marked, even in less industrialized areas such as Poland, where around 1800 thousands of spinners in the surrounding countryside supplied thread to the 1,000 or so linen looms in Andrychów village.
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