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The great divergence reconsidered : Europe, India, and the rise to global economic power / Roman Studer.
Lippincott Library HF3495 .S78 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Studer, Roman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development.
- Europe--Commerce--History.
- Europe.
- Commerce.
- History.
- India--Commerce--History.
- India.
- Economic development--Europe.
- Economic development--India.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 231 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Contrary to popular narratives, 'The Great Divergence Reconsidered' shows that Europe's rise to its current status as an undisputed world economic leader was not the effect of the Industrial Revolution, nor can it be explained by coal or colonial exploitation. Using a wealth of new historical evidence, Roman Studer shows that the Great Divergence occurred in the seventeenth century, if not earlier. When compared to India and other parts of the Asiatic world, early modern Europe was characterized by a more powerful transportation system, bigger trade flows, larger and better integrated markets, higher productivity levels, and superior living standards, even before the Industrial Revolution brought about far-reaching structural changes and made Europe's supremacy even more pronounced. Thus, an interplay of various factors best explains Europe's early and gradual rise, including better institutions, favorable geographical features, increasing political stability, and increasingly rapid advances in science and technology.
- Studer shows that institutional, geographical, political, and technological factors account for Europe's rise to undisputed world economic leader.
- Contents:
- Part I The big picture. Determinants of market integration ; Gauging the level of market integration
- part II Differentiations and extensions. Geography and the story of the many Europes ; Markets versus climate in Europe and India
- part III Synthesis and interpretation. Economic integration in India and Europe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107020542
- 1107020549
- OCLC:
- 891610484
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