Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not : global economic divergence, 1600-1850 / Prasannan Parthasara...
Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not : global economic divergence, 1600-1850 / Prasannan Parthasara...
Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not : global economic divergence, 1600-1850 / Prasannan Parthasarathi.
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Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N330.9402/7
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 365 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. Setting the Stage: Europe and Asia before Divergence: 2. India and the global economy, 1600-1800; 3. Political institutions and economic life; Part II. The Divergence of Britain: 4. The European response to Indian cottons; 5. State and market...
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Publisher
Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2011.
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- HISTORY / Renaissance
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"Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more a...
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Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not : global economic divergence, 1600-1850 / Prasannan Parthasarathi.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-352) and index.
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N330.9402/7
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9780521168243 (paperback)
9781107000308 (hbk.)
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330.9402
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991007554739702626
