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Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West

Edited by Maarten Prak, Utrecht University, and Jan Luiten van Zanden, Utrecht University

Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates, through regional studies and paired comparisons, how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial ...

€129.00$179.00

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Settler Economies in World History

Edited by Christopher Lloyd, Universities of New England and Helsinki University, Jacob Metzer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Richard Sutch, University of California Riverside, and National Bureau of Economic Research

Settler Economies in World History is a comparative, wide-ranging historical study of the experience of the modern settler societies that have followed a distinctive economic and institutional path to the present from their neo-European origins.

€133.00$172.00

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Shaping Medieval Markets

Jessica Dijkman

In the late Middle Ages the county of Holland experienced a process of uncommonly rapid commercialisation. Comparing Holland to England and Flanders this book examines how the institutions that shaped commodity markets contributed to this remarkable development.

€133.00$172.00

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Shipping and Economic Growth 1350-1850

Edited by Richard W. Unger

Shipping was the most dynamic sector of the economy of Europe from the fourteenth into the nineteenth century. Europeans who moved goods by sea dramatically improved their efficiency, laying the foundations for greater economic growth to come and for domination of the world’s oceans.

€133.00$172.00

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Medieval Manuscript Production in the Latin West

Eltjo Buringh

Drawing on statistical techniques and samples this book offers an estimate of medieval production rates of manuscripts in the Latin West. Such information is a helpful production indicator for a period of which we have so little other quantitative data.

€140.00$181.00

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Pre-Modern European Economy

Paolo Malanima

The book provides an overall reconstruction of the European economy, in the global context, from the High Middle Ages until the beginning of Modern Growth in the 19th century.

€144.00$187.00

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9789004176539

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How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850

Edited by Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy

Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy.

€110.00$142.00

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Has Latin America Always Been Unequal?

Ewout Frankema

Employing comparative and quantitative historical methods Frankema explores long run trends of asset and income distribution in Latin America, arguing that there is little reason to regard the yawning gap between rich and poor as the persistent result of a colonial heritage.

€110.00$142.00

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Medieval Capital Markets

C.J. Zuijderduijn

This study uncovers the institutional framework of markets for 'renten', which allowed large segments of the public and private sectors in late medieval Holland to accumulate capital, and thus functioned as capital markets that enabled economic development.

€110.00$142.00

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The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution

Jan Luiten van Zanden

‘The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution’ 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, and ...