Robert C. Allen is Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. His books include Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 (2009), and Farm to Factory: A Re-interpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (2003).

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• 1: The great divergence 2: The rise of the West 3: The Industrial Revolution 4: The ascent of the rich 5: The great empires 6: The Americas 7: Africa 8: The standard model and late industrialization 9: Big Push industrialization

Robert C. Allen is Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. His books include Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 (2009), and Farm to Factory: A Re-interpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (2003).

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• 1: The great divergence 2: The rise of the West 3: The Industrial Revolution 4: The ascent of the rich 5: The great empires 6: The Americas 7: Africa 8: The standard model and late industrialization 9: Big Push industrialization

Robert C. Allen is Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. His books include Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 (2009), and Farm to Factory: A Re-interpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution (2003).

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• 1: The great divergence 2: The rise of the West 3: The Industrial Revolution 4: The ascent of the rich 5: The great empires 6: The Americas 7: Africa 8: The standard model and late industrialization 9: Big Push industrialization