Global Economic History Series – serie
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13 produkter
Long Road to the Industrial Revolution
The European Economy in a Global Perspective, 1000-1800
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe? Was it a sudden acceleration of the European economy, or should we look at specific institutions arising in Western Europe since the Middle Ages? This book puts these big questions of European economic history in a global perspective, …
Medieval Manuscript Production in the Latin West
Explorations with a Global Database
Inbunden, 2010
3070 kr
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This study presents detailed information on the book production per century and on the uses of medieval manuscripts in eleven areas of the Latin West. Based on a sample from an extensive library and on additional information the numbers of manuscripts surviving from the period 500 – 1500 have been …
Medieval Capital Markets
Markets for renten, State Formation and Private Investment in Holland (1300-1550)
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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Institutions that allow for the accumulation of capital were as crucial to economic growth throughout history as they are today. But whereas historians often focus on the precursors of modern banking institutions, little is known of any alternatives that may have served similar purposes prior to …
Has Latin America Always Been Unequal?
A Comparative Study of Asset and Income Inequality in the Long Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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The forces of industrialisation, urbanisation, globalisation and technological change have washed away the pre-modern outlook of most Latin American economies. Despite the improved opportunities of social mobility offered by economic modernisation, current income inequality levels (still) appear …
How India Clothed the World
The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850
Inbunden, 2009
3425 kr
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Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative …
Pre-Modern European Economy
One Thousand Years (10th-19th Centuries)
Inbunden, 2009
3273 kr
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The book deals with the characters and evolution of the European economy from the high Middle Ages until the start of modern growth in the 19th century. Europe is always set in a global context and the European specific features are analysed on the background of the world economy. The main aim of …
Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850
Inbunden, 2011
3170 kr
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In sixteen essays authors explore the dramatic rise in the efficiency of European shipping in the three centuries before the Industrial Revolution. They offer reasons for the greater success of the sector than any other in making better use of labor. They describe the roots - political, …
Shaping Medieval Markets
The Organisation of Commodity Markets in Holland, c. 1200 - c. 1450
Inbunden, 2011
3170 kr
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The late Middle Ages witnessed the transformation of the county of Holland from a peripheral agrarian region to a highly commercialised and urbanised one. This book examines how the organisation of commodity markets contributed to this remarkable development. Comparing Holland to England and …
Settler Economies in World History
Inbunden, 2013
2974 kr
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Settler colonialism was a major aspect of the imperial age that began in the sixteenth century and has encompassed the whole world unto the present. Modern settler societies have together constituted one of the major routes to economic development from their foundation in resource abundance and …
Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West
Av Maarten Prak
Inbunden, 2013
2589 kr
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Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. The book offers regional surveys of Europe, …
How India Clothed the World
The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850
Häftad, 2013
1089 kr
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Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative …
Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence
Intercontinental Trade and Living Standards in the Dutch East India Company’s Commercial Empire, c. 1600-1800
Av Pim de Zwart
Inbunden, 2016
2340 kr
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In Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence Pim de Zwart examines the Dutch East India Company’s intercontinental trade and its effects on living standards in various regions on the edges of the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contrary to conventional …
Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha
Challenge and Opportunity in a Global Trade
Inbunden, 2018
2794 kr
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In Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha, Helen Godfrey traces the connections between submarine telegraphy and the peoples of Singapore and Sarawak (Borneo) who supplied 'gutta percha', the latex insulating the world network of undersea telegraph cables. The book examines the complex …
