International Historical Statistics: Europe 1750‐2000 (5th edition)

Many a student enquiry has been successfully answered with the aid of Dr Mitchell's statistical series that would have been virtually insoluble without it. New editions are now available of each of his three volumes: the other two (not seen) cover Africa Asia and Oceania; and the Americas. The set of three can be purchased for £650 (ISBN 0 333 994123 2). The starting date of 1750, as the editor admits, is chosen not because there are many reliable statistics beginning at that date, but because there are practically no reliable ones before that date. The statistics governments began to...