... to the Westwere instrumental in the rise of the “second serfdom.” On the otherhand, a large share of the population of the countries around the Balticearned a living through large exports (of ... Florence Bonnaud of the Laboratory of Car-tography at the University of Paris–Sorbonne must also be thanked for the maps. The support of Professor Jean-Pierre Bardet, director of the Roland Mousnier ... was the leading sector, as the fluctuations of harvests hada strong impact upon the rest of the economy.49 Of course, European economies, especially in the west, had much diversified since the...