Table 8: Number of European Cities over 100,000 in 1900 FRANCE 15 48 GERMANY BRITAIN 50 Table 9. Proportions of Total Populations engaged in Agriculture in England and France YEAR ENGLAND FRANCE 1500 76% 73% 70% 69% 1600 1700 55% 63% 1750 46% 61% 40% 59% 1800 Sources: E. Anthony Growth and Agricultural Change: England and the Continent in the Early Wrigley, ‘Urban Modern 15:4 (Spring 1985), 683-728. Special issue with the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Period’, title Population and Economy: From the Traditional to the Modern World. Robert Allen, Growth of Labour Productivity in Early-Modern English Explorations in ‘The Agriculture’,
Table 8: Number of European Cities over 100,000 in 1900 FRANCE 15 GERMANY 48 BRITAIN 50 Table 9. Proportions of Total Populations engaged in Agriculture in England and France YEAR ENGLAND FRANCE 1500 76% 73% 1600 70% 69% 1700 55% 63% 1750 46% 61% 1800 40% 59% Sources: E. Anthony Wrigley, ‘Urban Growth and Agricultural Change: England and the Continent in the Early Modern Period’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 15:4 (Spring 1985), 683-728. Special issue with the title Population and Economy: From the Traditional to the Modern World. Robert Allen, ‘The Growth of Labour Productivity in Early-Modern English Agriculture’, Explorations in
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