Atlas of Material Life
eBook - PDF

Atlas of Material Life

Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century

  1. 346 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Atlas of Material Life

Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century

About this book

Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia can be beneficial for the understanding of global history. This book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period from the late fifteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, with a focus on developments in Great Britain and the Dutch Republic on the one hand and China and Japan on the other hand. With maps, tables, graphs and figures as a prominent and integral part of the book, it provides information, in an accessible format, on the main characteristics of the economic landscape of this period. It demonstrates the constraints to which all pre-industrial economies were subjected because of their dependence on organic natural resources but also the different ways in which the societies discussed dealt with those constraints. To provide a better understanding of this economy of limited possibilities, the final chapter of the book is devoted to the emergence of modern economic growth in Western Europe.

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Table of contents

  1. FRONTCOVER
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
  4. GEOGRAPHY AND DEMOGRAPHY
  5. ENERGY
  6. RESOURCES
  7. AGRICULTURE
  8. EXCHANGES
  9. STAGNATION AND GROWTH
  10. SOURCES OF GROWTH? CHANGES IN PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORT
  11. SOURCES OF GROWTH? MARKETS AND STATES
  12. THE GREAT DIVERGENCE
  13. REVIEW AND REFLECTION
  14. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  15. BACKCOVER