Excerpt from Bibliography of Domestic Economy: In English The aim Of this bibliography is to include all bound books on domestic economy published in the English language between 1850 and 1899 inclusive. Pamphlets are as a rule omitted, and likewise all entries listed at 1c or less in American, and 6d or less in English money. No attempt has been made to include analytic or magazine references, a limitation barring government documents in which much useful material may be found. Of periodicals dealing chiefly with subjects in domestic economy only current magazines and journals find place in the list, or those which have been met with in catalogues or bibliographies. Lists of earlier ones may be found in the newspaper guides Cited among the bibliographic aids. The term domestic economy has been taken in the narrower sense of the management of house and children, together with the teaching of domestic economy and cookery thus covering the same ground as subject number 640 Of the Decimal Classification. With few exceptions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that humans adapted to their environments, not as individuals but in the social groups where they lived and worked out the details of their livelihoods. He explores the variation in economic organization used by simple and complex societies to procure, produce, and distribute resources required by both individual households and the social and political institutions that they supported. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological, historic, and ethnographic information, he develops and applies an analytical framework for studying ancient societies that range from the hunting and gathering groups of native North America, to the large state societies of both the New and Old Worlds. Hirth demonstrates that despite differences in transportation and communication technologies, the economic organization of ancient and modern societies are not as different as we sometimes think.