Global Economic History (Paperback)

Introduction: Globalization and Economic Change in History Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK) and Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics, UK) PART I: DIVERGENCE IN GLOBAL HISTORY 1. The Great Divergence Debate Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College, USA) and Kenneth Pomeranz (University of Chicago, USA) 2. Data and Dating the Great Divergence Jack A. Goldstone (George Mason University, USA) 3. Useful and Reliable Knowledge in Europe and China Patrick O'Brien (University of Oxford, UK) 4. Toolkits, Creativity and Divergences: Technology in Global History Karel Davids (VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 5. Families, Firms and Polities: Pre-modern Institution, Economic Growth and the Great Divergence Regina Grafe (European University Institute, Italy) and Maarten Prak (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 6. Plantations and the Great Divergence Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne, Australia) 7. Consumption and Global History in the Early Modern Period Maxine Berg (University of Warwick, UK) PART II: THE EMERGENCE OF A WORLD ECONOMY 8. Trade and the Emergence of the World Economy, 1500-2000 Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK) and Tirthankar Roy (London School of Economics, UK) 9. The Environment and the World Economy since 1500 John McNeill (Georgetown University, USA) 10. Labour Regimes and Labour Mobility from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century Alessandro Stanziani (University of Paris, France) 11. Varieties of Industrialization: An Asian Regional Perspective Kaoru Sugihara (Kyoto University, Japan) 12. Global Commodities and Commodity Chains Bernd-Stefan Grewe (Freiburg University, Germany) 13. The Rise of Global Finance, 1850-2000 Youssef Cassis (European University Institute, Italy) PART III: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES TO GLOBAL ECONOMIC CHANGE 14. Africa: Economic Change South of the Sahara since c. 1500 Gareth Austin, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland 15. The New World and the Global Silver Economy, 1500-1800 Alejandra Irigoin (London School of Economics, UK) 16. Economic Change in East Asia from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century Debin Ma (London School of Economics, UK) 17. Europe and the World, 1500-2000 Peer Vries (University of Vienna, Austria) 18. South Asia in the World Economy Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick, UK) 19. Changing Destinies in the Economy of Southeast Asia J. Thomas Lindblad (Leiden University, the Netherlands) Bibliography Index