Chapter 1 Introduction: Frontiers and Empires

Chapter 2 Frontiers and Empires in Historical Perspective

Chapter 3 Modeling Global Interdependence: Centers, Peripheries and Frontiers

Chapter 4 Towards a Model of Territorial Expansion and the Limits of Empire

Chapter 5 Demographic Shocks and the Factor Proportions Model: From the Plague of Justinian to the Black Death

Chapter 7 Towards a Factor Proportions Approach to Economic History: Population, Precious Metals and Prices from the Black Death to the Price Revolution

Chapter 8 International Trade and Factor Mobility with an Endogenous Land Frontier: Some General Equilibrium Implications of Christopher Columbus

Chapter 9 Natural Resources, ‘Vent-for-Surplus’ and the Staples Theory

Chapter 10 Resource-Led Growth—A Long-Term Perspective: The Relevance of the 1870–1914 Experience for Today’s Developing Economies

Chapter 11 Lampião and the Colonels: On the Political Economy of Banditry