India Modernity and the Great Divergence Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
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This book examines the reasons behind the Great Divergence. Kaveh Yazdani analyzes India’s socio-economic, techno-scientific, military, political and institutional developments. The focus is on Gujarat between the 17th and

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 13 April 2021

A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 10 December 2020

Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 08 April 2016

In Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence the intercontinental trade of the Dutch East India Company and its effects on living standards in a number of its

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 26 January 2017

The British Industrial Revolution has long been seen as the spark for modern, global industrialization and sustained economic growth. Indeed the origins of economic history, as a discipline, lie in 19

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
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• Release Date : 02 February 2016

2017 Bentley Book Prize, World History Association Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 24 June 2024

The volume consists of historical surveys of North-South cross-border economic flows and their impact on the Third World. Each chapter discusses international trade, investment, finance, and labor from the late

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 10 November 2020

What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China? Many

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 29 March 2019

The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global history. The essays in this volume