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Power and plenty : trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium / Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke.
LIBRA HF1379 .F556 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Findlay, Ronald.
- Series:
- Princeton economic history of the Western world
- The Princeton economic history of the western world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International trade--History.
- International trade.
- History.
- International economic relations--History.
- International economic relations.
- Globalization--History.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 619 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Power & plenty
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Geographical and Historical Background 1
- Western Europe 4
- Eastern Europe 11
- North Africa and Southwest Asia: The Islamic World 15
- Central (or Inner) Asia 24
- South Asia 29
- Southeast Asia 33
- East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) 37
- 2 The World Economy at the Turn of the First Millennium 43
- The Golden Age of Islam 48
- China: The Sung Economic Miracle 61
- The Indian Ocean and Southeast Asian Trade 67
- The Pirenne Thesis 71
- Eastern Europe: The Viking Connection 73
- The Economy of Western Europe 80
- 3 World Trade 1000-1500: The Economic Consequences of Genghis Khan 87
- Trade and War in the Mediterranean and the Black sea, 1000-1350 88
- The Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, 1000-1350 98
- The Pax Mongolica and Overland Trade, 1000-1350 101
- Eurasia on the Eve of the Black Death 109
- The Black Death 111
- Trade between Western and Eastern Europe, 1350-1500 120
- Overland Trade, 1350-1500: The Aftermath of the Pax Mongolica 124
- The Emergence of Russia 126
- The Middle East, the Mediterranean, and International Trade, 1350-1500 127
- Southeast Asia and China, 1350-1500 133
- Quantifying the Late Medieval Spice Trade 140
- 4 World Trade 1500-1650: Old World Trade and New World Silver 143
- Portugal, the Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean 145
- Spain, Portugal, and the New World 158
- The Pacific and East Asia 167
- The Dutch Rise to Primacy in World Trade 175
- Russia, Sweden, and the Baltic, 1500-1650 187
- Southeast Asia during the Age of Commerce 194
- The Cape Route, Venice, and the Middle East 204
- Silver, Silk, and Spices 212
- 5 World Trade 1650-1780: The Age of Mercantilism 227
- Origins of the British Empire: Trade, Plunder, and Settlement 229
- Mercantilism, Commercial Rivalry, and the Anglo-Dutch Wars 238
- Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic 245
- Britain and France: Commercial Expansion and the Second Hundred Years' War 247
- India: The Disintegration of the Mughal Empire and the Transition to Colonial Rule 262
- Southeast Asia and the End of the Age of Commerce 275
- The Manchu Empire 284
- China's Overseas Trade 286
- Chinese and Russian Overland Trade 295
- 6 Trade and the Industrial Revolution 311
- Trade during the Industrial Revolution 324
- Trade, Overseas Expansion, and the Industrial Revolution 330
- Why Britain? Why Europe and Not Asia? 346
- 7 World Trade 1780-1914: The Great Specialization 365
- War and Revolution 366
- The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Short-Run Implications 369
- The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Long-Run Implications 371
- The Industrial Revolution and Transportation Technology 378
- Bulk Commodities and Heckscher-Ohlin Effects 383
- Nineteenth-Century Imperialism 387
- Nineteenth-Century Trade Policy 395
- Commodity Market Integration, 1815-1914 402
- Complementary Factor Flows and the Great Frontier 407
- Trade and the Global Division of Labor 411
- Trade, Tropical Frontiers, and the Great Divergence 414
- The Terms of Trade 424
- 8 World Trade 1914-39: Deglobalization 429
- World War I 429
- The Aftermath of War 435
- Interwar Commercial Policy 443
- Transport Costs 455
- The Volume of World Trade 458
- Price Convergence and Divergence 461
- The Great Depression, the Collapse of World Trade, and the Developing Countries 465
- The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire 469
- 9 Reglobalization: The Late Twentieth Century in Historical Perspective 473
- World War II 473
- Geopolitical Consequences: Communism, the Cold War, and Decolonization 476
- The Gradual Reconstruction of the Atlantic Economy: 1950-70 489
- Policy Divergence: 1945-80 493
- Reglobalization: 1980-2000 496
- International Transport Costs 501
- Trends in Openness: Quantities and Prices 505
- Unraveling the Great Specialization 512
- Openness and Convergence in the Late Twentieth Century 515
- 10 Globalization at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century 527
- The Future of Globalization: Economic Challenges 534
- The Future of Globalization: Political Challenges 539.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691118543
- 069111854X
- OCLC:
- 173499119
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