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Introduction. 
Gabriel Tortella l

The Cost and Benefits of European Imperialism from the Conquest of Ceuta, 1415, to the Treaty ofLusaka, 1974.
Patrick Karl O'Brien & Leandro Prados de la Escosura 

Population and the Economy: From Hunger to Modem Economic Growth. 
Tommy Bengtsson, Osamu Saito, David Reher & Cameron Campbell. 

La cour comme institution économique. 
Marzio A. Romani & Maurice Aymard

The Legacy of Western European Fiscal and Monetary Institutions for the New Worid: The 17 th to the 19th Century.
Michael D. Bordo & Roberto Cortés Conde

The Biological Standard ofLiving and Economic Development: Nutrition
Sebastian Coll & John Komlos