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Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Sources ; List of Figures ; 1: Introduction: Frontiers andßEmpires; Concepts andßDefinitions; The Present Volume; References; 2: Frontiers andßEmpires inßHistorical Perspective; The Roman Empire; Islam andßtheßArab Conquests; The Medieval European Frontier; The Spanish Reconquista; Portugal; The Northern Crusades andßtheßEastern Frontier; Spain inßtheßAmericas; Argentina; North America; Canada; Southern Africa; Rhodesia; References; 3: Modeling Global Interdependence: Centers, Peripheries andßFrontiers; References.
4: Towards aßModel ofßTerritorial Expansion andßtheßLimits ofßEmpire The Basic Model; Absorption ofßSubject Populations; Local andßGlobal Optima; A Manufacturing Sector; Reaction Functions andßtheßBalance ofßPower; Comments onßtheßLiterature; References; 5: Demographic Shocks andßtheßFactor Proportions Model: FromßtheßPlague ofßJustinian toßtheßBlack Death; The Plague ofßJustinian andßIts Aftermath; The Model; The Production Function; The Malthusian Mechanism; Labor Productivity andßPer Capita Consumption; Land andßtheßFrontier; Employment inßLand Clearance; Dynamic Stability.
Demographic Shock Comparative Steady States; Performance: TheßByzantine Empire; The Islamic World; Western Europe; Conclusions; References; 6: The First Globalization Episode: TheßCreation ofßtheßMongol Empire, orßtheßEconomics ofßChinggis Khan; The Unification ofßtheßMongols: TheßInstallation ofßaß'Stationary Bandit'; Law andßOrder inßtheßSteppe; The Designation ofßChiefs; One ofßThose Singular Figures ofßHistory; The Mongol Conquests; The War Machine; Apogee andßFall ofßtheßMongol Empire; References.
7: Towards aßFactor Proportions Approach toßEconomic History: Population, Precious Metals andßPrices fromßtheßBlack Death toßtheßPrice Revolution Heckscher, History andßTheory; An Extended Factor Proportions Model; Economic Consequences ofßtheßBlack Death; Model Analysis; History; American Silver andßtheßPrice Revolution; Concluding Observations; References; 8: International Trade andßFactor Mobility withßanßEndogenous Land Frontier: Some General Equilibrium Implications ofßChristopher Columbus; The Closed World ofßEurope; The Role ofßtheßNew World; Exogenous Shocks.
An Increase inßtheßLabor Force An Industrial Revolution inßEurope; References; 9: Natural Resources, 'Vent-for-Surplus' andßtheßStaples Theory; Case Studies; Regions ofßRecent Settlement; Plantation Economies; Peasant Exporters; The Land Frontier; The Basic Model; Opening toßTrade: Rise inßtheßRelative Price ofßPrimary Products; Opening toßtheßWorld Capital Market: Fall inßtheßRate ofßInterest; Labor andßImmigration; The Modified Model; Conclusion; References.
4: Towards aßModel ofßTerritorial Expansion andßtheßLimits ofßEmpire The Basic Model; Absorption ofßSubject Populations; Local andßGlobal Optima; A Manufacturing Sector; Reaction Functions andßtheßBalance ofßPower; Comments onßtheßLiterature; References; 5: Demographic Shocks andßtheßFactor Proportions Model: FromßtheßPlague ofßJustinian toßtheßBlack Death; The Plague ofßJustinian andßIts Aftermath; The Model; The Production Function; The Malthusian Mechanism; Labor Productivity andßPer Capita Consumption; Land andßtheßFrontier; Employment inßLand Clearance; Dynamic Stability.
Demographic Shock Comparative Steady States; Performance: TheßByzantine Empire; The Islamic World; Western Europe; Conclusions; References; 6: The First Globalization Episode: TheßCreation ofßtheßMongol Empire, orßtheßEconomics ofßChinggis Khan; The Unification ofßtheßMongols: TheßInstallation ofßaß'Stationary Bandit'; Law andßOrder inßtheßSteppe; The Designation ofßChiefs; One ofßThose Singular Figures ofßHistory; The Mongol Conquests; The War Machine; Apogee andßFall ofßtheßMongol Empire; References.
7: Towards aßFactor Proportions Approach toßEconomic History: Population, Precious Metals andßPrices fromßtheßBlack Death toßtheßPrice Revolution Heckscher, History andßTheory; An Extended Factor Proportions Model; Economic Consequences ofßtheßBlack Death; Model Analysis; History; American Silver andßtheßPrice Revolution; Concluding Observations; References; 8: International Trade andßFactor Mobility withßanßEndogenous Land Frontier: Some General Equilibrium Implications ofßChristopher Columbus; The Closed World ofßEurope; The Role ofßtheßNew World; Exogenous Shocks.
An Increase inßtheßLabor Force An Industrial Revolution inßEurope; References; 9: Natural Resources, 'Vent-for-Surplus' andßtheßStaples Theory; Case Studies; Regions ofßRecent Settlement; Plantation Economies; Peasant Exporters; The Land Frontier; The Basic Model; Opening toßTrade: Rise inßtheßRelative Price ofßPrimary Products; Opening toßtheßWorld Capital Market: Fall inßtheßRate ofßInterest; Labor andßImmigration; The Modified Model; Conclusion; References.