CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Jan de Vries and his Contributions -- The Birth of Modern Europe: Determining the Margins of the Work of Jan de Vries -- The Tobacco Nation: English Tobacco Dealers and Pipe-Makers in Rotterdam, 1620-1650 -- The Market for Architecture in Holland, 1500-1815 -- From Shelf to Maps: Reconstructing Bookselling Networks in the Seventeenth Century Netherlands -- Hoare's Bank in the Eighteenth Century -- Modest Households and Globally Traded Textiles: Evidence from Amsterdam Household Inventories -- Britain's Asian Century: Porcelain and Global History in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Repeat Migration between Europe and the United States, 1870-1914 -- The Industrious Revolution and Labour Force Participation of Rural Women: Evidence from Mid-Nineteenth-Century France -- The Industrious Revolution in America -- Bibliography -- Index.