Chapter Outline

I. Demographic and Economic Growth

1. A New Demographic Era
2. Profit Inflation: The Movement of Prices
3. Protoindustrialization

II. The New Shape of Industry

1. Toward a New Economic Order
2. The Roots of Economic Transformation in England
3. Cotton: The Beginning of Industrialization

III. Innovation and Tradition in Agriculture

1. Convertible Husbandry
2. The Enclosure Movement in Britain
3. Serfs and Peasants on the Continent

IV. Eighteenth-Century Empires

1. Mercantile and Naval Competition
2. The Profits of Empire
3. Slavery, the Foundation of Empire
4. Mounting Colonial Conflicts
5. The Great War for Empire
6. The British Foothold in India