Titles in the Princeton Economic History of the Western World seek to explain the full range of Western economic development in all of its facets: the transformation of medieval Europe from a rural to a capitalist economy; the institutions that marked the European revolutions, the demographic transition, and the changes they wrought on daily life; the rise of the modern capitalist economies; and the role that technology, commercial expansion, and the international division of labor played in fueling their growth throughout the West and the world.