Acknowledgements
This book brings together new evidence concerning living standards in pre-industrial Europe and Asia. Demographic events, health, stature, consumption, and wages are examined in terms of communities and individual households.
Comparisons of living standards and well-being are made across social groups, countries, and continents. The diversity of experience within Europe and Asia is emphasized. The contributors include specialists in economics, history, and demography as well as Asian and European studies. The findings shed new light on the controversial question of when the West's lead in living standards over the rest of the world first emerged. This question has been the focus of a very lively debate involving scholars from economic history, history, and sociology. Some scholars in the tradition of Adam Smith and Robert Malthus argue that the gap in living standards was already large when industrialization started in the West, while others argue that standards of living were similar at that time, and thus, that the gap was a result of industrialization. It is only by providing new and more detailed evidence from many areas of human activity that the issue can be resolved, and this book is, we believe, an important step in this direction.A workshop in Arild, Sweden, in August 2000, which brought together the necessary group of specialists, was organized within the activities of the European Science Foundation (ESF) network on ‘Household and community dynamics: a Eurasian approach of mobility5. The European Science Foundation provided financial support for the workshop and the editors wish to express their gratitude to DrJohn Smith, the ESF Scientific Secretary, for his interest and active support of the workshop. Thanks are also due to Mrs Genevieve Schauinger of ESF who helped the organizers with the administration of the workshop. The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, the Crafoord Foundation, Lund, Sweden, the Research Programme in Economic Demography, Lund University, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and its Team for Advanced Research on Globalization, Education, and Technology also gave generous financial support to the workshop and/or the volume, which we are grateful for.
Finally we would like to express our gratitude to B. A. Madeleine Jarl, Lund University, for her outstanding ability and patience in assisting us in editing this volume. Our sincere thanks also go to Cathy Douglas and Jessica Bean, who assisted us in editing several of the chapters.
Robert C. Allen, Tommy Bengtsson, and Martin Dribe
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