Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.04.2017
Abbildungen
6 b/w illus. 4 maps 7 tables
Verlag
Cambridge University PressSeitenzahl
384
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2.1 cm
Gewicht
555 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-521-16824-3
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both characterized by sophisticated and growing economies. Their subsequent divergence can be attributed to different competitive and ecological pressures that in turn produced varied state policies and economic outcomes. This account breaks with conventional views, which hold that divergence occurred because Europe possessed superior markets, rationality, science or institutions. It offers instead a groundbreaking rereading of global economic development that ranges from India, Japan and China to Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire and from the textile and coal industries to the roles of science, technology and the state. A striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised and Asia did not. Focusing on divergence from the perspective of the Indian subcontinent, Prasannan Parthasarathi points to the plural paths of economic development which resulted from the very different pressures and needs that Europe and Asia faced.
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