Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Globalization challenge and economic response in the Mediterranean; Long-run growth: a comparative assessment; How poor was the European periphery before 1850? The Mediterranean vs Scandinavia; Real wages and relative factor prices around the Mediterranean, 1500 1940; European economic development: the core and the southern periphery, 1870 1910; Long-run growth: country studies; Growth and retardation in Ottoman Macedonia, 1880 1910
  • The choice of technology: Spanish, Italian, British and US cotton mills compared, 1830 60Trade, transport and domestic production in the century before World War II; Specialization in the international market for olive oil before World War II; International competition and the development of the dried-fruit industry, 1880 1930; International shipping in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea: Istanbul as a maritime centre, 1870 1910; Pre-1914 policy choices and the political economy of growth; Much Ado About Nothing? Italian trade policy in the late nineteenth century
  • What slowed down the mass emigration from Spain before World War II? A comparison with ItalyInterwar policy choices and the political economy of growth; Intervention during the Great Depression: another look at Turkish experience; Egyptian commodity markets in the age of economic liberalism; Twentieth-century Palestine; Economic growth and external trade in Mandatory Palestine: A special Mediterranean case; Bibliography; Index