The great divergence : Europe, China, and the making of the modern world economy /
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
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| Series: | The Princeton economic history of the Western world
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Table of Contents:
- INTRODUCTION
- Comparisons, Connections, and Narratives of European Economic Development-- Variations on the Eurppe-Centered Story: Demography. Ecology, and Accumulation
- Other Europe-Centered Stories: Markets, Firms, and Institutions--Problems with the Europe-Centered Stories-- Building a More Inclusive Story--Comparisons, Connections, and the Structure of the Argument
- A Note on Geographic Coverage-- PART ONE: A WORLD OF SURPRISING RESEMBLANCES-- Europe before Asia? Population, Capital Accumulation, and Technology in Explanations of European Development-- Agriculture, Transport, and Livestock Capital
- Living Longer? Living Better?
- Birthrates
- Accumulation?-- What about Technology?
- Market Economies in Europe and Asia
- Land Markets and Restrictions on Land Use in China and Western Europe-- Labor Systems
- Migration, Markets, and Institutions
- Markets for Farm Products-- Rural Industry and Sideline Activities-- Family Labor in China and Europe: "Involution" and the "Industrious Revolution"
- Conclusion to Part 1: Multiple Cores and Shared Constraints in the Early Modem World Economy-- PART TWO: FROM NEW ETHOS TO NEW ECONOMY? CONSUMPTION, INVESTMENT, AND CAPITALISM
- Luxury Consumption and the Rise of Capitalism-- More and Less Ordinary Luxuries
- Everyday Luxuries and Popular Consumption in Early Modem Europe and Asia
- Consumer Durables and the "Objectification of Luxury
- Exotic Goods and the Velocity of Fashion: Global Conjuncture and the Appearance of Culturally Based Economic Difference-- Luxury Demand, Social Systems, and Capitalist Firms
- Visible Hands: Firm Structure, Sociopolitical Structure and "Capitalism" in Europe and Asia
- Overseas Extraction and Capital Accumulation: The Williams Thesis Revisited
- The Importance of the Obvious: Luxury Demand, Capitalism, and New World Colonization-- Interstate Competition, Violence, and State Systems: How They Didn't Matter and How They Did--Conclusion to Part 2: The Significance of Similarities and of Differences
- PART THREE: BEYOND SMITH AND MALTHUS: FROM ECOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS TO SUSTAINED INDUSTRIAL GROWTH-- Shared Constraints: Ecological Strain in Western Europe and East Asia
- Deforestation and Soil Depletion in China: Some Comparisons with Europe-- Trading for Resources with Old World Peripheries: Common Patterns and Limits of Smithian Solutions to Quasi-Malthusian Problems-- Abolishing the Land Constraint: The Americas as a New Kind of Periphery-- Another New World, Another Windfall: Precious Metals
- Some Measurements of Ecological Relief: Britain in the Age of the Industrial Revolution-- Comparisons and Calculations: What Do the Numbers Mean?-- Beyond and Besides the Numbers
- Into an Industrial World
- Last Comparisons: Labor Intensity, Resources, and Industrial "Growing Up"
- Appendix A
- Comparative Estimates of Land Transport Capacity per Person: Germany and North India, circa 1800 301
- Appendix B
- Estimates of Manure Applied to North China and European Farms in the Late Eighteenth Century, and a Comparison of Resulting Nitrogen Fluxes
- Appendix C
- Forest Cover and Fuel-Supply Estimates for France, Lingnan, and a Portion of North China, 1700-1850
- Appendix D
- Estimates of "Ghost Acreage" Provided by Various Imports to Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain-- Appendix E-- Estimates of Earning Power of Rural Textile Workers in the Lower Yangzi Region of China, 1750-1840-- Appendix F
- Estimates of Cotton and Silk Production, Lower Yangzi and China as a Whole, 1750 and Later--With Comparisons to United Kingdom, France, and Germany.