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
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Biographical note
Maarten Prak is Professor of Social and Economic History at the University of Utrecht. He (co-)authored and (co-)edited numerous books and articles on West European early modern history. His books include Gezeten burgers. De elite in een Hollandse stad: Leiden 1700-1780 (De Bataafsche Leeuw, 1985), Republikeinse veelheid, democratische enkelvoud. Sociale verandering in het Revolutietijdvak: “s-Hertogenbosch 1770-1820 (SUN, 1999) and The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2005; originally in Dutch 2002; Hungarian edition 2004).
Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Global Economic History at the University of Utrecht and a former staff member of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. His recent books include The Strictures of Inheritance. The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2004; with Arthur van Riel), A History of Royal Dutch Shell, vol. I: From Challenger to Joint Industry Leader, 1890-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2007; with Joost Jonker) and The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution. The European Economy in a Global Perspective, 1000-1800 (Brill, 2009).
Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Global Economic History at the University of Utrecht and a former staff member of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. His recent books include The Strictures of Inheritance. The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton University Press, 2004; with Arthur van Riel), A History of Royal Dutch Shell, vol. I: From Challenger to Joint Industry Leader, 1890-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2007; with Joost Jonker) and The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution. The European Economy in a Global Perspective, 1000-1800 (Brill, 2009).
Readership
All interested in global history and in the history of technology of the early modern period.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Foreword by Patrick O’Brien
Introduction: Technology, skills and the pre-modern economy in the East and the West, Maarten Prak, Jan Luiten van Zanden
PART I: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Transferring technical knowledge and innovating in Europe, c.1200 – c.1800, S.R. Epstein
2. Apprenticeship and Industrialization in India, 1600-1930, Tirthankar Roy
3. Skills, ‘guilds’, and development: Asking Epstein’s questions to East Asian institutions, Kenneth Pomeranz
PART II: INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES
4. Mega-structures of the Middle Ages: The construction of religious buildings in Europe and Asia, c.1000-1500, Maarten Prak
5. The technology and teaching of shipbuilding, 1300-1800, Richard W. Unger
6. Moving machine-makers: Circulation of knowledge on machine-building in China and Europe between c. 1400 and the early nineteenth century, Karel Davids
7. Guilds and apprenticeship in China and Europe: The Jingdezhen and European ceramics industries, Christine Moll-Murata
8. Labour relations, efficiency and the Great Divergence: Comparing pre-industrial brick-making across Eurasia, 1500-2000, Gijs Kessler and Jan Lucassen
9. Explaining the global distribution of book production before 1800, Jan Luiten van Zanden
Bibliography of the published works of S.R. Epstein
Index
About the authors
Foreword by Patrick O’Brien
Introduction: Technology, skills and the pre-modern economy in the East and the West, Maarten Prak, Jan Luiten van Zanden
PART I: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Transferring technical knowledge and innovating in Europe, c.1200 – c.1800, S.R. Epstein
2. Apprenticeship and Industrialization in India, 1600-1930, Tirthankar Roy
3. Skills, ‘guilds’, and development: Asking Epstein’s questions to East Asian institutions, Kenneth Pomeranz
PART II: INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES
4. Mega-structures of the Middle Ages: The construction of religious buildings in Europe and Asia, c.1000-1500, Maarten Prak
5. The technology and teaching of shipbuilding, 1300-1800, Richard W. Unger
6. Moving machine-makers: Circulation of knowledge on machine-building in China and Europe between c. 1400 and the early nineteenth century, Karel Davids
7. Guilds and apprenticeship in China and Europe: The Jingdezhen and European ceramics industries, Christine Moll-Murata
8. Labour relations, efficiency and the Great Divergence: Comparing pre-industrial brick-making across Eurasia, 1500-2000, Gijs Kessler and Jan Lucassen
9. Explaining the global distribution of book production before 1800, Jan Luiten van Zanden
Bibliography of the published works of S.R. Epstein
Index
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