Why Europe grew rich and Asia did not : global economic divergence, 1600-1850 /
"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 centur...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Setting the stage : Europe and Asia before divergence. India and the global economy, 1600-1800
- Political institutions and economic life
- Part II. The divergence of Britain. The European response to Indian cottons
- State and market : Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire
- From cotton to coal
- Part III. The Indian path. Science and technology in India, 1600-1800
- Industry in early nineteenth-century India
- Conclusion.