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Global economic history / edited by Tirthankar Roy, Giorgio Riello.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019Description: xiv, 370 sidor illustrationer 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781472588425
  • 9781472588432
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.9 23
LOC classification:
  • HC51 .G56
Other classification:
  • Qad
Contents:
Introduction: Global economic history, 1500-2000 / Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy.?Part I. Divergence in global history: 1. The Great Divergence debate / Prasannan Parthasarathi, Kenneth Pomeranz -- 2. Data and dating the Great Divergence / Jack A. Goldstone -- 3. Useful and reliable knowledge in Europe and China / Patrick O'Brien -- 4. Toolkits, creativity, and divergences : technology in global history / Karel Davids -- 5. Families, firms, and polities : pre-modern economic growth, and the Great Divergence / Regina Grafe, Maarten Prak -- 6. Plantations and the Great Divergence / Trevor Burnard -- 7. Consumption and global history in the Early Modern Period / Maxine Berg.?Part II. The emergence of a world economy: 8. Trade and the emergence of a world economy, 1500-2000 / Tirthankar Roy, Giorgio Riello -- 9. The global environment and the world economy since 1500 / J.R. McNeill -- 10. Labour regimes and labour mobility from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Alessandro Stanziani -- 11. Varieties of industrialization : an Asian regional perspective / Kaoru Sugihara -- 12. Global commodities and commodity chains / Bernd-Stefan Grewe -- 13. The rise of global finance, 1850-2000 / Youssef Cassis.?Part III. Regional perspectives to global economic change: 14. Africa : economic change south of the Sahara since c. 1500 / Gareth Austin -- 15. The New World and the global silver economy, 1500-1800 / Alejandra Irigoin -- 16. Economic change in East Asia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / Debin Ma -- 17. Europe in the world, 1500-2000 / Peer Vries -- 18. South Asia in the world economy, 1600-1950 / Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy -- 19. Changing destinies in the economy of Southeast Asia / J. Thomas Lindblad
Summary: What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies doesit engage with? In 'Global economic history,' Roy and Riello, alongside 20 leading academics, explain why a global perspective matters to economic history. The authors cover an ambitious number of topics, from the Great Divergence to the rise of global finance, to the New World and the global silver economy. Chapters are organized both thematically (Divergence in Global History and Emergence of a World Economy), and geographically (Regional Perspectives on Global Economic Change), to provide the global perspective required by this challenging field of study. The result is a textbook that provides students with a quick and confident grasp of global economic history and its key issues

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Global economic history, 1500-2000 / Giorgio Riello, Tirthankar Roy.?Part I. Divergence in global history: 1. The Great Divergence debate / Prasannan Parthasarathi, Kenneth Pomeranz -- 2. Data and dating the Great Divergence / Jack A. Goldstone -- 3. Useful and reliable knowledge in Europe and China / Patrick O'Brien -- 4. Toolkits, creativity, and divergences : technology in global history / Karel Davids -- 5. Families, firms, and polities : pre-modern economic growth, and the Great Divergence / Regina Grafe, Maarten Prak -- 6. Plantations and the Great Divergence / Trevor Burnard -- 7. Consumption and global history in the Early Modern Period / Maxine Berg.?Part II. The emergence of a world economy: 8. Trade and the emergence of a world economy, 1500-2000 / Tirthankar Roy, Giorgio Riello -- 9. The global environment and the world economy since 1500 / J.R. McNeill -- 10. Labour regimes and labour mobility from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Alessandro Stanziani -- 11. Varieties of industrialization : an Asian regional perspective / Kaoru Sugihara -- 12. Global commodities and commodity chains / Bernd-Stefan Grewe -- 13. The rise of global finance, 1850-2000 / Youssef Cassis.?Part III. Regional perspectives to global economic change: 14. Africa : economic change south of the Sahara since c. 1500 / Gareth Austin -- 15. The New World and the global silver economy, 1500-1800 / Alejandra Irigoin -- 16. Economic change in East Asia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / Debin Ma -- 17. Europe in the world, 1500-2000 / Peer Vries -- 18. South Asia in the world economy, 1600-1950 / Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy -- 19. Changing destinies in the economy of Southeast Asia / J. Thomas Lindblad

What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies doesit engage with? In 'Global economic history,' Roy and Riello, alongside 20 leading academics, explain why a global perspective matters to economic history. The authors cover an ambitious number of topics, from the Great Divergence to the rise of global finance, to the New World and the global silver economy. Chapters are organized both thematically (Divergence in Global History and Emergence of a World Economy), and geographically (Regional Perspectives on Global Economic Change), to provide the global perspective required by this challenging field of study. The result is a textbook that provides students with a quick and confident grasp of global economic history and its key issues

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