Europe emerges : transition toward an industrial world-wide society, 600-1750 / [by] Robert L. Reynolds.

This book includes a large list of maps that focuses on economic industrial expansion and economic trade on a global scale.

Section I. Basic assets: About 600 A.D : Chapter I. Climate, physical features -- Chapter II. Soils, fisheries, metals, and minerals -- Chapter III. Tools, crafts, and processes -- Chapter IV. Crops, food, and livestock --

Section II. Medieval economy and society: 600 to 1350 : Chapter I. Economies and societies in nonmanorial areas -- Chapter II. The manorial system -- Chapter III. Feudalism: Government and war, land and law -- Chapter IV. Developing trading patterns, to about 1350 -- Chapter V. Business and finance -- Chapter VI. Towns and townspeople -- Chapter VII. Republics, oligarchies, and tyrannies --

Section III. Societies outside Europe: Chapter I. Islam by the fourteenth century -- Chapter II. Africa south of the Sahara -- Chapter III. India and Hindu or Buddhist Asia -- Chapter IV. China and Chinese Asia - Chapter V. Continental Asia -- Chapter VI. The Western hemisphere --

Section IV. Europe on the eve of its great expansion : Chapter I. General social and economic changes after the mid-fourteenth century -- Chapter II. Industry, commerce, and government -- Chapter IV. Assets for expansion: Exploration and trade -- Chapter IV. Assets for expansion: Conquest and settlement --

Section V. Expansion before 1750: Chapter I. Government policies through the period of expansion -- Chapter II. The Muscovite empire -- Chapter III. The empire of Portugal -- Chapter IV. Spain's empire -- Chapter V. The Dutch -- Chapter VI. The French -- and the Africans -- Chapter VII. The English.

"This account of the emergence of Europe into a community that was to achieve world domination brings to the student and general reader alike a new approach to European history. Professor Reynolds has combined a description of the social and economic development of Europe with a discussion of what effects its economy had upon other societies throughout the world...The first parts cover economic and social developments from 600 to 1350, examining Europe's climate, physical features, and natural resources as well as manorial and non-menorial systems and feudalism....Following is a sketch of societies outside Europe which reflects the increasing influence of Europeans in given areas. Special attention is paid to the expansion of the Muscovite state and to conditions in the Western hemisphere. He sums up the influences that Europe's worldwide exploration, trade, conquest, and settlement has on her own industry, commerce, and government and concludes with an account of the respective territorial and mercantile expansions of the British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russians." -- from back cover.