The long road to the Industrial Revolution : the European economy in a global perspective, 1000-1800 /

A ~The Long Road to the Industrial Revolutiona (TM) offers a new explanation of the origins of the industrial revolution in Western Europe by placing development in Europe within a global perspective. It focuses on its specific institutional and demographic development since the late Middle Ages, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zanden, J. L. van
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Global economic history series ; v. 1.
Temas:
Industrial revolution > Europe.
Révolution industrielle > Europe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Economic history
Economic policy
Industrial revolution
Economische ontwikkeling.
Industriella revolutionen > Europa.
Industrialismen > historia > Europa.
Europe > Economic conditions.
Europe > Economic policy.
Europe > Conditions économiques.
Europe > Politique économique.
Europe
Europa (geografie)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution
  • Part One
  • Medieval Foundations
  • Chapter One
  • Introducing the Problem: The Emergence of Efficient Institutions in the Middle Ages
  • Chapter Two
  • Why the European Economy Expanded Rapidly in a Period of Political Fragmentation
  • Chapter Three
  • Book Production as a Mirror of the Emerging Medieval Knowledge Economy, 5008211;1500
  • Part Two
  • The Little Divergence within Europe
  • Introducing the Problem
  • The Little Divergence within Europe, 14008211;1800
  • Chapter Four
  • Girlpower. The European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and Labour Markets in the North Sea Region in the Late Medieval Period
  • Part Three
  • Common Workmen, Philosophers and the Birth of A European Knowledge Economy
  • Introducing the Problem
  • The Birth of the European Knowledge Economy
  • Chapter Five
  • The Human Capital of the Common Workmen: European Skill Premium in a Global Perspective
  • Chapter Six
  • The Philosophers and the Revolution of the Printing Press
  • Part Four
  • Towards the Dual Revolution: State Formation and Morden Economics Growth
  • Chapter Seven
  • State Formation and Citizenship: The Dutch Republic between Medieval Communes and Modern Nation States
  • Chapter Eight
  • The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth in the North Sea Region
  • Part Five
  • Two Great Divergences
  • Chapter Nine
  • The Arab World, China, and Japan
  • Conclusion
  • 'A Million Mutinies'
  • Appendix One
  • Further Experiments with the Cobb Douglas Production Function: Italy and Western Europe
  • Appendix Two
  • Estimating Chinese GDP Per Capita in the Eighteenth Century
  • References
  • Index of Subjects.

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